Workers Press no. 685

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CRISIS STAGE

IN MINERS'

BY ALEX MITCHELL

THE TORIES yesterday intr gency powers to deal with 1 strike. The third similar declar office, they provide for the us vehicles to carry out essential Other regulations deal with *maintaining law and order' and offenders face £100 fines or imprisonment for three months, or both. The regulations came into power after a Privy Council meeting chaired by the Queen Mother and Princess Margaret, wife of photographer Lord Snowdon. Ja While the regulations were Tory Employment Secretary Carr was seeing miners' leaders representatives from National Coal Board. Now entering its 32nd day, the strike is at its most crucial stage.

Two features of the strike are clearly emerging: The strike is maintaining the • support of the broad mass of workers in Britain. despite all the difficulties, beginning to bite. Therefore, yesterday's declara- tion of a state of emergency is not a sign of Tory strength, but a sign of their weakness.

The desperation in high Tory circles is mirrored in yesterday's capitalist press. "The Times', for example, has untypical appeal for an the miners to be treated as 'a special case'. The editorial yes- Foreign News 2 Unemployment in the 1930s 4 Discussion on ATUA Manifesto 5 Derry youth on Right to Work march 6 & 7 What happened to James Larkin? 8 TV programmes 11

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DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRA

lay introduced sweeping emer- with the month-long miners' ır declaration since Heath took the use of troops and military sential work'. terday says: 'Obviously they will not return to work without an offer improved or a further period of battle... the union leaders cannot expect the gov- ernment simriy to sell out.

*They must certainly be ready to make the most of anything which the NCB can offer with the government's blessing, and they if they reach agreement, must persuade men worked up by the experience of the strike to accept it.' ~ in Embodied this piece of "Times' advice, is one of the biggest dangers facing miners- possibility of the

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winning the leadership wage battle against the government, but being fobbed off with only a few bob more than Ezra is offering now. The miners should stand on their claim, the full claim and nothing but the claim. "The Guardian also limped into action yesterday with a main editorial on the strike. Also arguing for 'special-case' treatment, it said that the gov- and the TUC *must ernment realize that the country expects a way out of this frightening and socially divisive dispute to be found this week'. what frightens course, Guardian' (and the Tory gov- ernment) is the real threat of mass class action in support of the miners. Because, in spite of the of the TUC, then cowardice the retreat on wages the engineers' leaders and this power workers' week the leaders, the working class has experienced such class not solidarity and militancy for decades. Carr and company can bring in their emergency laws. But if one British soldier tries to break a picket line, it could well be the last episode in the brief and hated history of this government.

• SEE Miners' interviews (p. 10) and news (p. 12).

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • THURSDAY FEBRUARY 10, 1972 ®

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

6,000 SHOW

SOLIDARITY

AT PICKET'S

FUNERAL

FROM JOHN SPENCER IN YORKSHIRE

MINERS from all over Britain came to Duns- croft Doncaster, near Yorkshire, yesterday to pay their last respects to Fred Matthews, the picket who was killed at Scunthorpe last week. They marched 6,000-strong in a cortege behind the coffin the Stainforth cemetery where he was buried. The funeral procession, headed the banner of Hatfield Main

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branch, which Pret Matthews belonged, of was the largest miner's funerals ever seen in Yorkshire. Busloads of mourners came ARY 10, 1972 • No. 685 • 4p

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POWER STATION

SAY PICKETS

ONE of central London's main power stations, Battersea, will have to cease operations within three two or days, according to men from Bettshanger Bicketing there for the last few days. They chain colliery, that two chimneys are already shut down and that 'ticking over'. the other two are just A spokesman for the pickets said: •We have had no trouble from the drivers bringing hydrogen and oil. They have all turned back. The coal normally but our picket boats comes up by boat, have put a stop that' to

ANNOUNCING

the emergency regulations in the House, Home Secretary Reginald Maudling said the armed forces would only be used if it became absolutely essential to maintain the vital services for the nation'.

A miner MP, Tom Swain (Lab, Derbyshire NE), thought would discussions be wise, as taking were place, to withdraw the of state emergency because of the effect, or suspicion which aroused would be in mining that areas the state of emer- gency was intended to break the strike. from each of the 80 Yorkshire branches and there were delega- Kent, tions from Wales, Scot- land, Durham, E Midlands and THE civil rights D (for disrup- Derbyshire. tion) Day staged in Ulster The 1,500 men at Hatfield pit yesterday turned out to be a lined the streets as the proces- damp squib. sion Fred Matthews went by. Hatfield miner correspondent in London- was for 20 Workers Press years before he was killed. He derry told the leaves six children. local community was particularly incensed by the ineffectiveness of Tom Mullany, Hatfield colliery the demonstration staged by 'This is a tremen- delegate, said: John and other Social dous expression of Democratic MPs. solidarity Party from The other coalfields the other and They went on a 24-hour hunger pits. determination fast at Derry Corner. to fight to finish Elsewhere, the has been civil righters went strengthened by Freddie's tragic to local government departments death." •Do you asking such questions as need a licence to grow a goose- berry? "Do

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and licence to keep a billy goatte need

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workers press

CRISIS STAGE

IN MINERS'

BY ALEX MITCHELL

THE TORIES yesterday introduced vehicles to carry out 'essential work'.

Other regulations deal with 'maintaining law and order' and offenders face f100 fines for three or imprisonment months, or both. ,The regulations came into power after Privy Council meeting chaired by the Queen Mother and Princess Margaret, of Lord wife photographer Snowdon. While the regulations were Tory receiving royal assent, Robert andovert batemany Carr was seeing. miners leaders from and representatives Board. Now Narinna! LUdl the strike entering is sena day, is at its most crucial stage.

Two features of the strike are clearly emerging: support ori the Broad mins toe

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Dode mass workers in Britain. ucketing is despite all the difficulties, successful and beginning to bite. Therefore, yesterday's declara- tion ol a sale ol emergency not a sign of Tory strength, but a sign of their weakness.

The desperation high Tory circles HISTOr COylerady d capitalist press. "The Times', for example, has untypical appeal an miners be treated special case'. The editorial yes-

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Forelgn News 2 Unemployment in the 1930s 4 Discussion on ATUA Manifesto 5 Derry youth on Right to Work march 6 & 7 What happened to James Larkin ? 8 TV programmes 11

INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTE

DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRA

ay introduced sweeping emer- with the month-long miners' ir declaration since Heath took the use of troops and military sential work'. terday says: Obviously they will not returi to work without an offer or a further improved period of battie... the unior leaders cannot expect the gav- ernment simriy to sell out.

"They must certainly be ready to make the most of anything which the NCB can offer with the government's blessing, and if they reach agreement, they must persuade men worked up by the experience of the strike to accept it.' Embodied in this piece of "Times' advice, is one of the biggest dangers facing miners— possibility of the NUM winning the wage leadership battle against the government, but being fobbed off with only a few bob more than Ezra is offering now. The miners should stand on their claim, the full claim and nothing but the claim. "The Guardian' also limped into action yesterday with a main editorial on the strike. Also arguing for 'special-case' treatment, it said that the gov- 'must and the TUC ernment realize that the country expects a way out of this frightening socially divisive dispute to and be found this week'. what frightens course, Guardian' (and the Tory gov- ernment) is the real threat of mass class action in support of the miners. Because, in spite of the cowardice of the TUC, then the retreat wages on the engineers' leaders and this week the power workers' leaders, the working class has not experienced such class solidarity and militancy for decades. Carr and company can bring in their emergency laws. But if one British soldier tries to break a picket line, it could well be te last episode in the brief and hated history of this government.

• SEE Miners' interviews (p. 10) and news (p. 12). • THURSDAY FEBRUARY 10, 1972 • No. 685 • DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

6,000 SHOW

SOLIDARITY

AT PICKET'S

FUNERAL

FROM JOHN SPENCER IN YORKSHIRE

MINERS from all over Britain came to Duns- croft near Doncaster, Yorkshire, yesterday to pay their last respects to Fred Matthews, the picket who was killed at Scunthorpe last week. They marched 6,000-strong in a cortege behind the coffin the Stainforth cemetery where he was buried. The funeral procession, headed the banner of Hatfield Main

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branch, to which Fred Matthews belonged, one of was mimers funeras ever seen in Yorkshire. Busloads of mourners came.. ARY 10, 1972 • No. 685 • 4p

IE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE

POWER STATION

SAY PICKETS

ONE of central London's main power stations, Battersea, will have to cease operations within two days, according or three to men from Bettshanger two chimneys are already shut down ticking that the other two are just over. A spokesman for the pickets said: 'We have had trouble from the bringing hydrogen drivers no and oil. They have all turned back.

The coal normally comes up by boat, but our picket boats have put a stop to that.

EMERGENCY

ANNOUNCING

the emergency regulations in the House, Home Secretary Reginald Maudling said the armed forces would it became 'if only be used absolutely essential to maintain the vital services for the nation'.

A miner MP. Tom Swain (Lab.

Derbyshire NE), thought it would be wise, as discussions were taking place, to withdraw the state of emergency because of the effect, or suspicion which would be aroused in mining that the areas state of emer- gency was intended to break the strike. from each of the 80 Yorkshire branches and there were delega- Wales, tions from Kent, Scot- land, Durham, E Midlands and THE civil rights D (for disrup- Derbyshire. Day tion) staged in Ulster The 1,500 men at Hatfield pit yesterday turned out to be a lined the streets the proces damp squib. Fred Matthews sion went by. correspondent in London- was a. Hatfield 20 miner for Workers told derry Press the years before he was killed. He local community was particularly leaves six children. incensed by the ineffectiveness of Hatfield colliery the demonstration staged by delegate, said: John other Social and dous Democratic expression. of solidarity Party MPs. the from other coalfields They went on a 24-hour and hunger The miners determination Corner: pits. fast at Derry fight to Elsewhere, civil the finish has been righters went strengthened by Freddie's tragic to local government departments death.'• asking such questions as 'Do you need a licence to grow a goose-

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berry?' and "Do need licence to keep a billy goate

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AROUND THE WORLD

BY A FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT

IMPERIALIST war pre- parations will continue whatever talks may be held with the Soviet or Chinese leaders, US Pre- sident Richard Nixon made clear yesterday. His foreign-policy report to described Congress 1971 as 'the watershed year', in which the US had made a dramatic opening to Peking and started relationship with new a Moscow. But the two cornerstones of the 95,000-word report were: • No change; • The arms build-up goes on. There is to be no change in US imperialist policy in Indo- China, the Middle East, Africa and W Europe. In Vietnam, Nixon said, Hanoi's rejection of his phoney peace plan posed one fundamental

LIBERATION FRON'

LIBERATION forces launche attack for at least a year on sprawling military base early were killed and another 17 w of 39 big missiles. Military spokesman said two district two other air- towns, fields and two outposts were also one or two hours after mid- night. At the huge coastal airbase at Vietnam's second Da Nang, largest city, 27 rockets slammed into the billeting area wounding ten US servicemen and a parking area damaging one aircraft.

Vietnamese military sources said one S Vietnamese non- commissioned officer was killed in the hour-long barrage of rockets. The city has not been bom- barded since January 3, when four rockets wounded one ser- viceman and damaged three air- craft. Binh Dinh province, about In 150 miles S along the coast, five more rockets hit the Phu Cat air- field yesterday. Lane army office, in the same attacked with province, was small arms during the night.

In Phu Yen province, immedi- ately S of Binh Dinh, 15 mortar bombs hit military and official civilian buildings. Consul threat and S BRITISH Consul General to America Alastair Maitland was guarded by police in Boston yesterday following threats to connection assassinate him in 'Bloody with N Ireland's Sunday. An armed guard was placed on Maitland. ANTI-BRITISH slogans, such as litt

URUGUAY NEAR A

FORMER agriculture minister Juan Maria Bordaberry appeared assured of a five-year term as Uruguay's president yesterday, as latest unofficial figures in a long drawn-out election recount showed him holding on to a narrow lead. If confirmed the winner, he is expected to continue his pre- decessor's hard line against the Tupamaros guerrillas. Bordaberry, hand picked can- didate of incumbent Colorados Party President Jorge Pacheco Areco, had a 10,000-vote lead Blanco Party Senator Wil- over .9 t Jay February 10, 1872

NIXON

question— will we collude with our enemies to overturn our friends?' The answer was obvious: This we shall never do.' Nixon tells Congress in his report that Soviet bases and arms supplies to Egypt could have.

RONT REPLIES...

launched their biggest rocket rear on Da Nang city and its = early yesterday. Four people er 17 wounded with a barrage • Four Cambodian soldiers were killed and several wounded when Vietcong attacked the hard-pressed NW town of Siem Reap in Laos. A military command spokes- man said the fighting occurred on Monday night as a govern- ment patrol tried push towards Angkor Wat, about 150 miles from Phnom Penh. DEMONSTRATORS shouted 'Go home butcher' at Indo- nesian President Suharto when he arrived at Sydney's town hall for a civic reception yes- terday. Nearly 200 demonstrators, many of them carrying anti- Suharto placards, were . out- murderers out of Ire- 'British land' were daubed on the out- side of the British Overseas Air- offices in Corporation ways yesterday. Police Sydney early said at least three bricks were the front of the thrown at BOAC building, but they did as little damage.

AR A PRESIDENT

son Ferreira Aldunate with only 40,000 ballots to be checked, sources close to the electoral court revealed. This is roughly the margin in the preliminary vote count after the polls closed on November 28.

The Blanco Party has alleged fraud in the vote-counting, say- ing that in some districts there were more votes than registered voters and that sacks of ballot papers were mysteriously sent away from Montevideo to be pulped or burned. The final official result is now expected at the end of this week. serious implications for the balance of power world on as well as in the Middle scale East itself. In Africa, he made plain that the US will go on backing to the hilt the racialist dictatorships of S Africa and Rhodesia. It would resist those who took the path of 'violent change' there.

In Europe, he said, the 300,000- strong US military force would not be reduced without what he described as 'matching'—not just equal-percentage—cuts from . the Warsaw Pact countries. Since the Soviet Union could reinforce its troops much quicker than the US, an equal-percentage agreement would be unfavour- able to NATO, Nixon claimed.

Any such agreement would have to be 'more comprehensive'.

Having already made very clear his ruthless determination to prosecute the trade war, the US President went on to threaten: 'If the Soviet Union continues to expand strategic armed forces, compensating programmes will be mandatory. "The preferable alternative be a combination of would mutual restraint and an agree- ment in SALT [the strategic arms limitation talks]. But under no circumstances will I permit further erosion strategic balance with the USSR.'

Behind the of White acres in other House double-talk, imperialism words, doomed US continues to prepare its bloody answer to the forward march of the working class at home and overseas. regretted that some US Nixon the past year-his decisions in trip to Peking and the August 15, 1971, dollar policy—had put government in a the Japanese difficult position. He promised that during his Peking he would trip to not discuss with Chinese officials any which bi-lateral arrangements could adversely affect the in- terests of US allies. 'We have no interest in arrangements which would sac- rifice our friendship with a long- standing ally to the need for communication better with a long-standing adversary, he said.

numbered by a strong police guard. One young woman was arrested on the town hall steps.

Suharto, who is on an official visit to Australia, gave a short speech at the reception, but most of his words could not be heard above the chants of the demon- strators who denounced political imprisonments in Indonesia.

But the President and his wife received a more cordial welcome from a small group of Indone- sians when they arrived earlier at Sydney airport in the Royal Australian air force jet which brought them from Melbourne.

After the civic reception, Pre- sident Suharto travelled along a heavily-guarded route to a Syd- ney hotel where he addressed a group of Australian businessmen at a luncheon. Ample opportunity was being given for foreign investment in his country and several attrac- tive privileges were being offered to attract outside help to develop the country, he said. A report from Wellington, the New Zealand capital, where he arrives today, said Suharto will have talks with New Zealand Minister John Marshall Prime and Cabinet Ministers during his four-day visit. The Campaign Against Repres- sion in Indonesia has threatened demonstrations during his visit.

It was Suharto and his military backers who murdered a million communists during the downfall of the previous President, Sukarno. HOURS AFTER a tentative agreement to end the 124-day- old W coast docks' strike was announced yesterday, the American Senate voted over- whelmingly in favour of com- pulsory arbitration to end the strike. The Senate's Bill was then sent to the House of Representatives.

This Bill gives the port em- ployers their long-sought oppor- tunity to free themselves from the stranglehold of held-up grain shipments. It means that both also capitalist parties (Republicans and Democrats) have gained their desperately-needed breath- ing space from the threat of a joint national docks' strike.

The settlement now has to be ratified by 15,000 rank-and-file members of the International Longshore Warehousemen's Union, as well as by President NUMBER of unemployed

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in the Common Market area rose to more than 2 million in the last half year-and there are signs of improvement, a no warned senior EEC official yesterday. M Albert Coppe, Commissioner in Charge of Employment and Social Affairs, told a session of the EEC's parliament meeting in Strasbourg that the number of jobless was 2.1 million compared with 1.7 million in the corres- ponding period of 1970. Moreover the growth of the community's gross national pro- YESTERDAY'S 'Times' reports general secretary of the elec- tricians' and plumbers' union Frank Chapple's 'short but powerful speech' to the 13:- man negotiating team on the power men's pay claim. In this speech he is reported to have said: "To bring down the government by industrial action would only lead to a General Election in which the Conservatives would be returned with a landslide majority? Like all reformists, Chapple is dedicated to the defence of the capitalist system and its parliamentary state. walks in the footsteps of his social democratic predeces- sors in Germany before Hitler came to power. Chapple talks about General Elections as though they were divorced from the eco- nomic crisis which now grips the capitalist world. It is the outcome of this crisis which grips the capitalist now world. It is the outcome of will crisis which be decisive and not whether or not Labour is returned the next General Election.

German social democrats were fairly successful with their election work until the eco- nomic crisis of 1929 pro- vided a powerful impetus to the rise of fascism and the break up of the bourgeois democratic Weimar state. All major issues of politics today are now being directly influenced by the insoluble nature of the world capital- ist crisis. As in 1929, the writing is on the wall for Labourite reformism. The Wilson government 1964- 1970 was absolutely bank- rupt and unable to make the slightest inroads into the capitalist system. The greatest and most impres- Nixon's Pay Board in Washing- ton. A special ILWU committee, meeting in San Francisco on Saturday, will decide when the ratification vote will be taken and whether the workers will re- turn to the docks pending the vote. Even then a settlement is not certain. During previous negoti- ations between the ILWU and the shipping company, the Pacific Maritime Association, which broke off on January 17, contract proposals included a $1.12 (43p) an hour increase over two years.

This constitutes a 25-per-cent increase—much higher then the contracts already majority of approved by the Pay Board, which has the power to veto wage settlements under Nixon's economic reform policy. No details of the latest pay have been made agreement public. duct in 1972 was expected to be lower than registered last year and this would further increase unemployment. In W Germany unemployment month had it not been for exceptionally mild weather. Total number of unemployed at the end of the month stood at 375,600 or 1.7 per cent of the labour force, an increase of 0.5 end of from the per cent December. sive force today is the of the working strength The more this strength is exercised against the system and its state machine, the more it will be able to defeat the ultra-right threat of dictatorship at a later date. It may well be that if the Tory government was overthrown by the strength of the work- ing class over the miners' strike that it may power with the back to a frightened support middle class. Such a govern- would still have to face the growing conscious- ness of a militant working class and possibilities for the development of revolutionary leadership would be con- siderable. On the other hand a Labour government like the last government of Wilson would prove a disaster and could only demoralize the working class. It is this kind of government which the re- formists want back. The Socialist Labour League fights to build up the strength of the working class to make the Tory government resign. Follow- ing this, if a Labour govern- ment is elected, then it would be more: and more dominated by the militancy of the working class. A working class that can force the Tory master to resign can certainly deal with his Labour servant. The reformists are more frightened of the strength of the working class than they are of the Tories. They are prepared to capitulate to the Tory government rather than allow the working class to exercise its strength in order to build up and develop its political con- sciousness,

DAY FOUR-Kirkconnel THIS IS a tough part of the march. We're in Kirk- connel, which is just a high street trapped be- tween the hills of the S Scottish Uplands. There's a dirty drizzle fall- ing outside the school hall where we're billeted for the night. I had to laugh on the way in, despite the weather and the aching feet. We were passing the local graveyard 'this is the dead centre of the town', said one of the Renton boys. It just about sums up which has an Kirkconnel, astonishing 35 per cent male unemployment rate. We are all learning one political lesson — the people who have least always give. The miners in their fifth week of strike welcome the marchers the most. It's the local bureaucrats give who US the most jaundiced reception.

Just now the marchers are some hot grub. Cooking problem because we have been denied facilities. But there's one bonus, the local football club (miners' influence again) have thrown open their shower room and, believe me, after four days the road (54 miles from on Glasgow) you need one. don't get the But wrong impression. We're all in great Two spirits. young Cumnock miners joined the march today and the news of support build- ing up down the route makes us hit that road all the harder.

So keep it going comrades, we can't wait to reach the NE and the Yorkshire coalfield. The way the strike is going I imagine the march will have a profound effect when we reach these areas.

• Today's most dramatic moment came in New Cumnock. We were in the Working Men's Welfare Club there-guests of the local strike committee who shared out their food (soup, sandwiches and rice pudding) when the Tory declaration of a state of emerg- ency came over the TV. There was immediate reaction from the miners. If they send • the troops into Ayrshire they are in for a battle. But there was anger too. Miners at Cumnock cursed the leaders of the power workers for selling out their own members, ratting on the strike and accept- ing Tory wages policy into the bargain. The gap between the rank and file and the leadership is truly enormous. The leaders are considered part of the Tory establishment by all the miners we met.

Here are some comments l jotted down last night when I had a chat with the Cumnock strike committee, who gave us „such encouragement when we were in their town. IAN YOUNG, an engineer at Barrony pit: 'I think your march is a good one because it has a political aim against the Tory government. It's quite clear that if the miners then every trade unionist lose, in this country will lose.

"This fact demands an initiative from the trade union movement -I'm talking in terms of a General Strike—this is what we need. I think you are trying to put this view over throughout the country to all the trade unionists you meet. We have got to stick RS up here and man the pickets, but we will be with you in spirit.

Our fight is the same.' BILLY CRAWFORD, face worker at Lochlea mine. He was talking a day before the state of emerg- ency decision, but he anticipated they 'I think will the use troops and I think this will be the biggest upset in the country.

The working class are not the same people they were in 1926 when Churchill tried it on. They have already • used rough stuff against us at Kilmarnock. They put the police in on us, about 250 of them against 400 miners.

We call them Heath's army.

I feel very strongly about Feather and the TUC. They have done nothing to help us. JOHN HAMPSON, Killoch pit: 'We are out for the full f9.

Now I have my reservations THE PILKINGTON rank-and- file committee in St Helens, Lancashire, has expressed its complete for the support Young Socialists' Right-to- Work campaign. In August 1970, 600 Pil- kington workers were sacked for defending the right to work and strike. On July 10, 1971, the Young Socialists' National Committee organized a Summer Fair to raise money for the Pilkington men and their families. It col- lected over £1,000. Today 250 men are still out- side the gates.

NUE DEMAND

RIGHT

WORK

THE CENTRAL

London branch of the National Union of Journalists has agreed to support the Young Socialists' Right-to-Work campaign. The branch, which covers members employed on all Fleet St newspapers decided to support the march unanimously. The branch resolution stated: •Believing that the govern- ment's economic policies are leading to large-scale unemploy- ment and consequently to depressed conditions for all industries including the news- industry, this paper branch resolves to support the Right-to- Work marches currently being about the executive's determina- tion to get the full amount. I am weary about this talk of a "satis- factory offer". To me that's and a living wage. 'I will tell them one thing. They will never get the miners back for less. If we get ordered back, I know the men will stay out; that's the feeling up , here anyway and what I hear from England it's the same down there as well. The longer this government holds out on our claim, the more we will want— that's the mood on the coalfields.

'If they bring the troops in it will be like N Ireland over here' It's great to get the backing of these men because every one of them is worth ten bureaucrats, and we can do without their support so long as ordinary wor- kers give us a hand when we pass through their area. It's Thornhill tomorrow, more than half way to Carlisle.

A from leading statement committee member Jim Crosby to the Young Socialists on the jobs march reads: *Every endeavour is being made by the committee to unite employed and unem- ployed workers in St. Helens.

'We are optimistic that a large section of unemployed, especially the youth, will take the opportunity to join the march to London. 'We regard the march as an col- historic occasion. Rest assured the Pilkington rank-and-file ut- banner will be prominent among the marchers.' Workers Press, Thursday February 10, 1972 PAGE 3

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around the organized country scheme to sponsor local stewards with the backing of the trade to march part of the journey to union movement.' London. It was proposed by the Next Tuesday the stewards will Workers Press chapel. take a final decision on the form of the financial aid. ICI SHOP stewards, HUDDERS- Trades

WITNEY

and District

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have decided also to Council is supporting the and are con- cam- support the march paign and has offered to help sidering ways of raising finance. with overnight accommodation Ideas include a collection, stage and food. a football match, a ratile, Local union branches will also sorship of marchers circulated. Witney and dis- trict Labour Party which is sup porting the march will urge its members to give all possible help.

LEEDS

507 branch of

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supported the has march and agreed to put up f15 to sponsor from Leeds march Leeds. Polytechnic has agreed to organ- collection and put on Ize a concert to raise money for the

WORKING MENS CLUB

marchers when they arrive in the town.

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joint shop stewards com- Rover factory mittee at the in Solihull, Birmingham, has decided send delegates to ten the Empire Pool rally. The to AUEW shop stewards' committee Lucas Shaftmoor Lane Birmingham in has $20, donated and organized collection on the night and day shifts. So far they have collected about £50.

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Transport and General SU Workers' Union branch at BIRMINGHAM, has Carburettor, £10. Birmingham donated We branch 27 No.

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has passed a resolution of support and called on the district mittee to provide accommoda- tion in Birmingham. The Acocks Green

AUEW

branch has passed a similar reso- donated £4.60. lution and The Washwood Heath branch AUEW has passed a similar resolution, as

AUEW

banch has the Solihull which has also donated 50p.

SW LONDON: Tuesday Feb- Make the Tory resign! Roversment 15, Small Hall, ruary p.m. Clapham Manor Baths, Clap- Return a Labour government SW4. ' 'Support ham Manor St, pledged to restore full employ- miners and Ulster workers.'

ment repeal laws against the unions! ACTON: Wednesday February 16, 8 'Mechanics p.m. Arms' 'Support Churchfield Rd, W3.

WILLESDEN:

Monday Feb- miners and Ulster workers.'

14, 8 Trades and ruary p.m. Labour Hall, High Rd, LUTON: Thursday February ist crisis. Old Bed, Recreation Core Bedford economic crisis. SOUTHALL: Tuesday Febru- ary 15, 8 p.m. Indian Workers

LONDON:

Featherstone Association, Rd 'Victory to the miners'.

Cross Stn). 'Support miners and Ulster workers.

ruary p.m. Wharfedale N LONDON: Thursday Feb York ruary 17, 8 p.m. Town Hall, Ulster port miners and Edmonton Reformism and workers.' trade unions Socialist Labour League Special lecture LIVERPOOL, 8 p.m. Tuesday February 15

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THE FIGHTAGAINST.

UNEMPLOYMENT

PART 2

The Communist Party had been in the vanguard of the unemployed workers' strug- gles in the early 1920s. Com- munists had led the 'Nation- Unemployed Workers' al Committee Movement' which organized the 1922 Hunger march and a mounting cam- demonstrations paign of around the Unemployed Workers' Charter. After the General Strike of 1926, however the Stalinists began to play down the role of the local committees of the NUWM. on the British From 1925 increasingly Communist Party, under the dominance of Stalin, struggle played down had against the official trade union leaders. Stalinism placed the emphasis with the trade friendship on union bureaucracy rather than on building and developing revolu- in the tionary consciousness working class. Hence the slogan 'All during the General Strike, Power to the General Council of the TUC'. the For the same reason, Stalinists leading the unemployed movement rapidly moved away from the earlier demand for a General Strike against unemploy- Third at ment, Congress of the NUWCM in 1923. The emphasis of the Stalinists was on better conditions for the unemployed rather than against unemployment itself. This was clearly more palatable to the union and Labour Party trade bureaucracies. Moreover, in the period im- mediately prior to the General activities of the Strike, the NUWM virtually ceased on a national scale. The Stalinist Wal Hannington blithely reports: outstanding activities in 'No unemployment occurred in 1926."

this was precisely the But period when the closest relations should have been built up between the unemployed and the employed, to transform the strike into a unifying struggle of both workers sections of against capitalism. But this, of course, would have frightened the TUC General resolution Council. So, passed at the first National Con- gréss of the NUWCM in 1921 'never to cease from strife until abolished' capitalism is was pushed into the back- quietly ground. It must be emphasized that if 'no outstanding activities' of the unemployed took place in the before General months the Strike, it is because the Stalinists, with all their experience and skill activities, in organizing such chose not to organize any.

That the unemployed did not scab in 1926 is due to their own feeling of class solidarity and not to any leadership forthcom- ing from Hannington other Stalinists. It was this Stalinist line which its enabled the TUC to turn back on the unemployed after the strike and join with Lord Mond and other leading indust- rialists on a joint committee for the 'rationalization' of industry in other words, to join with the employers to plan more unem- ployment. By the end of 1926, the registered figure of unemploy- ment was 1,357,000. There were, of course, many thousands of others out of work who were figures included in the not because they did not qualify for 1 Wal Hannington 'A Short His- tory of the Unemployed', p. 44.

lay February 10, 1972 Top: Unemployed men unemployment pay. In January 1927 the Blanes- burgh Committee of Investigation into the l Unemployment Insur- Scheme recommended ance savage cuts in benefits. Sitting on the Committee and signing the recommendations along with the employers' representatives were union leaders Frank trade Hodges, Margaret Bondfield and A. E. Holmes. There demon- were mass strations of opposition to the report and in the winter of 1927 a march of unemployed miners walked from S Wales to London.

This forced some small improve- ments in benefits but, signifi- cantly, it was opposed by the

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and Labour Party leaders. In December the Tories' new Unemployment Bill incorporated the main recommendations of the Blanesburgh Committee. These involved: loyed men on Waterloo Bridge. Bottom: Scratel For men 21 to 65 years & re- duction of Is a week to 17s.

Men 20 but under 21 years a reduction of 4s a week to 14s.

'Men 19 but under 20 years a reduction of 6s a week to 12s.

Men 18 but under 19 years a reduction of 8s a week to 10s.

Boys 16. but under 18 years a reduction of Is 6d to 6s.

Women aged 21 to 65 remained at 15s a week. Women 20 but under 21 years a reduction of 3s to 12s a week.

Women 19 but under 20 years a reduction of 5s to 10s a week.

Women 18 but under 19 years d reduction of 7s to 8s a week.

Girls over 16 but under 18 years a reduction of Is to 5s a week.

In addition to this, every claim had to come up for review after 11 weeks and further benefit could be refused even if the 30 applicant could satisty the stamps statutory condition. The Bottom: Scratching for unwanted coal on slag heaps near Newcastle clause under which benefit could be refused was which has been ourned

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WorkIng. class consciousness-the 'not Sirst tour génuinely work' clause. In the first of the operation of the Act, 204,51l claims for benefit were turned down under the 'not genuinely seeking work' clause. Ano use onus or oroor was on the applicant. Often he had to produce documentary evidence from employers that toremen he had applied to them for work.

This forced unemployed men, often cold and hungry, tramp miles in all kinds lially where there weater to places was no hope of a job simply in order That het documentary had tried. evidence frequent v boss could

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be bothered to write out a state- ment to that effect. Men spent days in this futile, soul-destroy.

in ith every munth that passed, tramp. of unemployed ancer 1928, September, increased. contingents marchers hunger coalfields all the Scottish trom shipyards and converged Edinburgh. The following year, in January, another march London demanded higher abolition benem scares ano Ure the 'not genuinely seeking work' clause. This forced a modification of the clause-the Tons coal benefit period was extended for another 12 months, The marchers left London on March She 1929. and six WeeKs recited m the formation one later government resulted the formation seconou government May, 1929.

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REVOLUTIONARY PARTY

ALL TRADES

On November 6 last year a national conference of the All Trades Unions Alliance decided to adopt a draft manifesto. to transform the Socialist Labour League into a revolutionary party. Since the conference a country- wide discussion has been initiated in League branches, in the ATUA, in the Young Socialists and among Workers Press supporters.

Until the Right-to-Work rally at Empire Pool, Wembley on March 12, we intend to carry a full page each day devoted to your comments on the Draft Manifesto. We have received more than 100 con- tributions to this vital discussion. Now we want at least another 100. Workers and their families, youth, students and the un- employed are all invited to join in this discussion. If you haven't got a copy of the Draft Manifesto write to Workers Press or contact your local ATUA branch.

GEORGE COLLIER

Member of the National Unlon of Sheet Metal Workers, Coppersmiths, and Heating and Domestic Engineers, Aberdeen.

Unemployed. I have to support my family now • £16.40 a week which isn't on much but I know that it's more than many others get. Not that it will last. I think planning big Tories are attacks on unemployment pay, as of their cutbacks in the part social services. If the Tories stay in power things can only get worse.

After the war they made con- cessions. Now they're trying to take them all back. They want to increase their own at our ex- pense. People thought that the Welfare State was a stable thing and now the Tories are taking it away. We've got to get rid of the Tories, but there must be a fight to get rid of Wilson, Castle and Jenkins as well. I think the and

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Manifesto the Workers Press should make this even clearer than it does. Wilson has no solutions—he began the high unemployment. There's no leadership in the Labour party and the sharper the Tory attacks the more clear this is. Everything that has happened since November—a million unem- ployed, now the miners strike, and so on—only makes the Mani- festo more urgent. The need is for people to be- come active and not just accept Wilson's leadership. Surely after Labour last government people know where these people stand. But it's only if people are active that we can begin to see what can be done about it.

The Draft Manifesto provides revolutionary leadership.

Many people are afraid of taking such a leap, but the Manifesto points the road to a revolutionarv policy. There will have to be a big turn round of thought in the working class against the present leaders.

STEVE COLLING

Further Education student, Homel Hempstead I think in this period the build- ing of the revolutionary party is decisive to the future this working class because present Tory government is at- tacking the worker in every field possible. If the working class is to main- tain its standard of living and go the capitalist system forward, has got to go, and the rise of socialism is the only alternative to fascism. The present leadership within the trade union movement and student union is completely be- traying the people they repre- sent. The student leadership confines itself to demonstrations sells out to the Tories. Students cannot win this fight on their own. They must fight alongside the rest of the working class.

'Divide and rule' is the oldest the working way of defeating class, as can be seen in N Ireland.

The leadership of the workers must be replaced by one willing to fight, and the SLL is the only organization that is going to do this. Every worker who wants to defend gains made over the last 25 years must turn to revolu- tionary politics to turf out this illegal government.

BILL AND COLENE PARK

Bill Is T&GWU member. Colene Is a housewite, Birmingham I felt disgust last year when the returned, but I Tories were surprised at what haven't been they've done. believed what they never said about cutting prices, and you can't trust either Labour or Tory. But if Wilson were in, things would not be so bad. He would not be doing to the unions what the Tories are: he got into too big a fight last time. Tories think the are frightened of the unions, and I don't think the Tories will last three years—a few things could happen. The unions are not de- feated and the Coventry tool- room agreement, for example, was not a defeat so long as the stuck together. An men up- heaval has to come, though feel rather fatalistic about it my- self. Colene Park housewife: Most people have had a shock at what the Tories have done.

They tricked the country with their election promises, and it looks as if they planned the attacks on wages, welfare bene- fits, the rise in prices.

The Tories seem to be more frightened of the working class now than in the 1930s,. because they aren't prepared to be trod- den on. If Wilson was in now he'd do his best to make it better for the working class; but they should have taken the Common Market to the country's vote.

Jenkins has no right to stay in the Labour Party, neither have the others who voted to join the Market. There will have to be a General Strike and there is a need for a revolutionary leader- ship to fight both the Tories and the Labour leaders. We need to prepare a leader- ship now—not enough people in the working class realize what's going on, and if they did they would see the urgency of the situation.

BARRY BARNES

Worker at Bird's Eye factory in Hull The rights you are talking about in the Charter haven't been given. They have been won over the years by the working class Tories and the unions. If the take away these things, they take away the right of the work- ing, class, the power to organize and strike. There is a world trade war now in action. I think the Tories are trying to make up their loss in profits by wage cuts, knock- ing down the standard of living.

This Tory government is defi- nitely illegal. The people were not consulted about the Com- TO

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'Students cannot win on their own. They r mon Market. The Industrial Re- lations Act is to stem the activi- ties of the unions. Since the Tory in, government came against the working aggression class has been stepped up. In it's Ireland in particular, been stepped up 100 per cent. People are shot and in- being terned without trial. It's against the laws even the bourgeois laid down. On wages, no one, so far as I know, has got the full 74 per cent this year. One of the biggest struggles will be with the miners. They have always been in front in the history of the working class. If the ATUA gets Workors Prosa, Than wn. They must fight alongside the rest of the wor a big following there, it will be a big step forward. A Labour government to re- place the Tories must be differ- ent from the past. The last Labour government put the same laws in as the Tories, but they are not as straightforward.

alternative must be the revolutionary. This is the only that can help movement us, which is why I have decided to join. This government will head to- It's only just wards fascism. showing its face in N Ireland.

The trade war will step up and make it grimmer for the tycoons.

They will including repress us, ... rada, Therelay Potencary 10, 1972 PAGE 5 of the working class'. the use of troops. The biggest problem facing the working class is ejecting this government. The working class needs to get out of its old traditions. Workers have been taught by their parents to turn their back on anything con- nected with communism. I think it will be soon. But a lot of workers are still not wil- ling to look to the revolutionary situation and form a party. I've had that difficulty in my factory.

Another thing, a lot of Stalinists preach to workers to back down.

In the past I've noticed this my- self, but I've not known what to do about it.

PAGE 6 Workers Prose, Thuraday Fabruary 10, Top: Unemployed on hunger march 40 year

WHEN IM

SIXTY FOUR

Claude Currie re-lived his youth when he stood on the bleak outskirts of Glasgow and watched the Right-to- Work march set out for Kil- marnock on Sunday. He was the man who organized March from first Hunger the Clydeside back in 1929. He told me with calm irony that the day before, he was fired from the building site where he acted as shop steward. 'But I've been sacked thous- ands of times-I'm 64, you get used to it, or rather you get ob- jective about it. *It makes think about me If I was 20 years. those times. younger I would be down the road with those boys and girls.

the men walked in through Claude's days was sheer desperation. 'You could • describe Glasgow in one word then-and that was foul. Poverty and un employment made men feel they were nothing, and meant nothing on the face of this earth.

I was young when I starter too 20. I began because I al ways asked the question why why did I have to go to school with no shoes, why was life for me a graduation from the class.

to the street corners of room 110, 1972 inger march 40 years ago. Below: Unemployed and hol Glasgow, why, above all, did that mysterious class of rulers deprive me of human dignity.

"Take this phrase dignity. It was a concept that few workers realized. But they knew it was something they never possessed and yearned for above every- thing. The right to work was the embodiment of that precious commodity-dignity, dignity as a working man. We tramped the country, right across the land to London -the same route as the Young We had Socialists taking. are nothing but boots and blankets to cover our shoulders and lied down upon at night. "The hardship was very great. I remember once getting the boots off an older worker. I dipped the razor blade in hot water to cut out the blisters-just to show it was hygienic. His feet were a terrible mess—I said you had "You're not get- better go back. ting me back into that town, he said. Cut away" 'We stayed in halls, town halls and house. the . poor Warwick area once we knocked on the door of the poor house and the master came. He didn't like the look of us wild-looking youth at all. But he let us in then tried to give us poor-house food. Eventually we got him to open his larder and we had a decent meal. At Warwick itself I remember they put us up in the jail—-we slept on a cart load of straw. 'But there were the good times that made the great journey One little worth mile. every town I will never forget—Tam- Unemployed and homeless In Glasgow They sent worth Coventry. near the band out to and greet uS played us into the town. We got a pint of beer each and an allo- cation of cigarettes and then a good meal at night and one for breakfast. 'You could keep going for the next hundred miles on the spirit it gave you. It was the ordinary working class coming to your side you see. "The men who came on these marches were ordinary working blokes. They did not have much political. consciousness, but as the march went on you became something-a living thing not just a nonentity on the dole.

'At night we would have meetings and go over the day's events. Always the youth section would be the most energetic, going out in the towns holding meetings and raising money. It was only in the snob shires we got a bad reception. 'But for all that they were desperation. marches of There was already mass unemployment. The right to work was already gone-they were begging bowl protests in many ways. 'It's not like this march.

'From the meeting in Glasgow you can see the political level is far higher. These youth are an- ticipating and nghting for the right to work before it's robbed oil them. •With all my heart I wish I could go down that road with them. My heart and my political strength is behind them • anyway. I don't think the Tories will beat this generation.' 0 г!

DAILY PAE

side to step into

DERRY FIGHTS

place •Unemployment terrible lot to the troubles

FOR JOBS

lads the Creggai all know ∞ o ęc There's nes tones ane stornont never any money in d do all ke : the do Noel Robertson and Martin ormal thing And if you get McDonald have left a battle vork it's a cheap labour jol field to join the march for It's the first time for Noel have Marti work on London. impressions already Other youth from Scotland's vivid dole call them mark attitude • British working cass boys from Derry' and they march lo tne 'I am surprised at the fantastic out at the head of the processior and

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WaLCOMC got. At first I thought they mighi Inenaly lorry dnvers Wno rodi by They ,we were secus both witnessesd the from Northern There's re ano 1 saue stre tads Derry ae saof ine lierra t suppose its s stre oe) saw wo eng-class I suppose sieged town 1 and Martin o-cers peple world, deep underground ahe city cemetery by the reggan English workers ie wil • m te estate get the same receptio from Dmies unese

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employed teenagers from occupied prove that Call COnC Dee rittt to march to London for can be driver zelaer me trooDs the i bro ther work with their olL. British Martin's been of school 'Because, said Noel, "this for three vears ,His the only way solve ид- Lal. jobs, low pay and employment. The British and the Kime then the sack lusn workers must do it cocetne 'Really bring the toure. te main down Toroel ver) nas had. five or : main stam or tne †ronnie six demand on the Derry Civil Right jobs since he left school-he lef -that all them the -'paid is ta in trad because was Catholi youth in particular there is just earned was most before tax. This is the othe WOLK nOW "This can be as bec oi memoymea - ue marcu Cused te our that's kee• vour wares secuS et val and know hundred Top: Marchers ieave Glasgow. Bottom : Hall way bol Tiney There S Re eru to toin t.ine other kids hanging around out- can be nothing unless there unity between British and Irish' workers to get the Tories out.

That's what I carry over from Ireland. 'Look at this-in my town the soldiers slaughter the people- but how far are we from it today over here. We marched through a mining area today and the men came out to help us. How long is it before they face the guns?'

Both of them defend the IRA's right to hit back at the army and the people protect of Creggan and the Bogside where they live. fighting back is right "This but the policies are not enough.

There is socialism-this has got to. come into it-it's the only and South future for North Ireland, and Britain too. This is what the march means to me, said Martin. They both • met an old mate in Glasgow-Lexy Lynch another Creggan boy who's walking to London. He's been in Britain for four months. I think the Irish troubles are going to start over here. Every day you read in the papers about how the Tory government are out to beat down the miners.

they will 'But I don't. think beat this strike — not if the miners have their way. They are needing a General Strike and if the leaders won't give them one then the workers will have to go out and make one themselves.

I know British workers will fight with Irish workers, this is what I have learned over here.

That's why. we're on this march together.

PAGE 8 Workers Press, Thursday Februa Several readers of our recent series on Irish working-class history have asked what became of Jim Larkin. It is fairly common knowledge that Larkin went to America after the defeat of the 1913 Dublin lock-out but his fate well after that is not so i known.

BY JACK GALE

In fact the decline of this great workers' leader is salutary a militancy and warning that courage alone are not enough. A for revolu- refusal to struggle tionary theory, and in particular the fight against take up Stalinism, destroyed Larkin. He ended his life less than a shadow of his former self. The sole cause of the defeat workers in 1913 of the Dublin was the treachery of the British trade union leaders, who refused to support them. These same leaders then went on to prove their subservience to capital by wholeheartedly supporting the 1914 war. Larkin resolutely opposed the that England's declaring war, need is Ireland's opportunity'. He organized anti-war demon- strations and vehemently opposed Redmond's efforts to get recruits for the British army. In fact Larkin went to enormous lengths that the working to get arms class could use in revolutionary struggle. Here is one account of how this was done: 'Some time before he went to Jim had sent me. an address was to call for six guns and ship them to Ireland. Being by now in a small tombstone business, I took a crate to the place and packed the guns carefully in the case, which I addressed on my business cards showing a tomb- stone printed on them, and the crate "Tombstone, labelled with care". In the bottom of the was laid a slab of stone crate one inch thick. This crate was handled at the Dublin docks by the men of Jim's union." But Larkin had not got over the 1913 sell-out, followed as it was by the capitulation of the Second International at the out- break of war. Late in 1914 he left Ireland for a speaking tour of America to raise money for the Irish Transport Union. It was not necessary for a leader of his stature to carry out such a task and his comrades in the union and in the Irish Citizen Army appealed to him not to go. But Larkin was determined. And the 'lecture tour' grew into a stay of eight and a half years. In America, Larkin continued his opposition to the war. It was, he declared, 'the outcome aggression and capitalistic the desire to capture home and foreign markets'?

SOCIALISTS

insisted: 'We Again, he socialists are against this war. We are also against a more brutal war, the war of capital against who are men oppressed and who have only their labour power to sell. We socialists want than more dollar increase for the workers.

We want the earth." not for the Kaiser any more than I am for George of am for the working England. I classes of every country. The English working class is as dear to me as that of my own country or any other land, but the gov- ernment of England is the vilest thing on the face of the earth."

Larkin was, in fact, approached by the Germans, but he turned down an offer of $200 a week to organize sabotage in America. He formed an organization called Winds Fellowship, the Four • . . lay Fabruary 10, 1972 Above: Larkin In 1907. Bolow: arrosted on open only to trade unionists, and this organization did lead during the war years. strikes Larkin's position was that if these strikes impeded America's entry into war, then that Germany against would assist Britain, but his purpose was to assist the American and also the working class. Irish In these years Larkin's outlook was that of syndicalism and he established connections with the most militant wing of the Indus- trial Workers of the World-men like 'Big Bill' Haywood, one-time organizer of the Western Federa- tion of Miners, and the legendary this, he incurred Joe Hill. For the hostility of the right wing of the American socialist move- well as that of the ment as 'respectable' wing of the Irish- American movement, which was closely already becoming involved with the Democratic Party. The Sinn Fein denounced Larkin and he, in turn, called them 'super-fine patriots and the most consummate tricksters of politicians'. Larkin joined the Socialist Party and became a close asso- ciate of John Reed when the rested on Bloody Sunday. latter returned to America with his eye-witness account of the October Revolution. Fear of the Russian Revolution led to massive witch-hunt a against socialists and militants in United States, with charges the ranging obstructing from the draft Reed to treason. was indicted on three charges and the mass trial of 100 IWWs in Chicago typical of was this workers' attacks against organization. Larkin became an enthusiastic supporter of the Third Inter- worked in national and the Russian Soviet Recognition which published a paper League called 'The Revolutionary Age'.

Throughout the world, the ruling class was shaking with fear. One of their most far- sighted representatives, Lloyd George, expressed this when he 'The whole of Europe is wrote: filled with the spirit of Revolu- tion. There is a deep sense not only of discontent but of anger and revolt amongst the workmen against pre-war conditions. The whole existing order in its poli- tical, social and economic aspects is questioned by the masses of the population from one end of Europe to the other." • the right Larkin broke with wing of the Socialist Party, but led to the subsequent splits formation of the American Communist Party, claiming 60,000 members, the Com- munist Labour Party (which Larkin joined) claiming 10,000, leaving the Socialist Party with 40,000.

ANARCHY

The 'red scare' was intensified by the 1919 strike wave. Larkin arrested charge was on a criminal anarchy. Bail was set at $15,000 and the magistrate ruled that membership of a communist organization amounted to criminal anarchy. On May 3, 1920, Larkin was sentenced for five to ten years' imprisonment and was sent to Sing Sing. Later, he was trans- ferred to Clinton Prison „Dannemora, known as one of the cruellest jails in the States.

He was pardoned and released in January 1923, and returned to Ireland in April that year.

After the end of World War I in November 1918, Sinn Fein had declared for an Irish Republic.

Guerrilla war raged until October 1921, when Ireland was granted 'Dominion' This status. was accepted by the Irish parliament, but was followed by civil war.

By the time of Larkin's return, the Republican Army could no longer maintain the unequal struggle. . Unarmed, they were arrested in large numbers and interned in prison camps with- out trial. This was the background to Larkin's fight with right the wing of the Transport Union and the Irish Labour Party. After the British employers had called the union leaders' bluff on Black Friday and broken Lonin the miners' resistance in June 1922, they forced wage cuts on the British working class to the tune of £10m a week.? The Irish employers were to follow Before suit. quick Larkin's return the Transport Workers' Union executive had capitulated to the farmers in the and accepted Waterford area wage cuts for the farm workers.

In July 1923, the Dublin em- ployers announced a cut of 2s per day in the wages of the dockers, whose average earnings were then 16s a day. Larkin led the ensuing strike of 15,000 men.

After three months the transport union executive accepted a gov- ernment mediator and a cut of Is a day. This decision not only went against Larkin's wishes, it ran counter to a ballot of the men which decided by a vote of 687 to 443 to continue the strike.

Immediately following this retreat, the cut was extended to all portworkers - carters, coal- heavers, grainmen, seamen and firemen, dockers. as well as on, the Irish em- From then ployers imposed wage cuts throughout industry. Meanwhile, Larkin was invited by the Communist International to represent Ireland at its 5th Congress to take place in June 1924. (In 1922, while still in Sing Sing, Larkin had been elected to the Moscow Soviet by a group of Russian tailors who had returned to the Soviet Union from America.) Larkin had developed beyond syndicalism. He had always been one of its best representatives, the kind of man Trotsky had in mind when he declared:. 'We can enter into a tranquil and friendly discussion with our syndicalist comrades.'

But Trotsky's warning also applied to Larkin: 'It would be wrong to pay for a rapproche- ment with a confusion of ideas."

Lenin had seen Larkin's poten- tial during the 1913 struggle: "The Irish proletariat that is awakening to class consciousness has found a talented leader in the person of Comrade Larkin, the Secretary of the Irish Trans- port Workers' Union. Possessing remarkable oratorical talent, a man of seething Irish energy, Larkin has performed miracles among the unskilled workers— mass of the British letariat which in England is so often cut off from the advanced workers by that cursed petty- bourgeois, liberal, aristocratic spirit of the British skilled worker."

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' Fred Bower Rolling Stone- mason' (1936), p. 218. = Emmet Larkin 'Jim Larkin', p.

189 (The author is no relation to Jim Larkin). 3 Emmet Larkin op. cit., p. 190.

4 Emmet Larkin op. cit., p. 192.

5 For Larkin's work with Reed • Ginger 'The Bending Ray see Cross', p. 359ff. 6 E. 'The Bolshevik H. Carr Revolution', Vol. 3, p. 128.

" K. Hutchinson 'Decline & Fall of British Capitalism', p. 214.

8 Trotsky 'Marxism and the Trade Unions', p. 19. • Lenin 'On Britain', p. 128.

The appointment of Lord Chief Justice Widgery to undertake an inquiry into the Londonderry massacre has one very valuable outcome as far as the Tories are concerned.

His inquiry has High • Court status, which bars the press from exposing what actually happened until he produces his report.

As far as most of Fleet St is concerned, the Tories need not have bothered. The millionaire newspaper proprietors and their hired pens were ready to go to any lengths to whitewash the government and its troops and slander the Irish workers.

This was how the "Telegraph' editorial writer greeted the news of the 13 deaths: 'Yesterday's civil rights march in Londonderry and its horrifying consequences (which included the deaths of at the very least 13 people) ought, one would think, to remove some. of the glamour which still surrounds the idea of "peaceful civil protest"?

The marchers were violating law, he said, the and 'the resulting chaos supplies perfect conditions for IRA snipers; but what the viewing public _and visiting sentimentalists like Lord Brockway • seè is British troops quelling a peaceful demon- stration But the "Telegraph' managed to shift the "moral' responsibility for the 13 deaths onto the Civil Rights movement. For the Tories who run the "Telegraph,' taking part a demonstration clearly justifies the death penalty. The writer went on: 'Where then is the moral difference between the IRA murderers and the civil rights movement? Ostensibly these marches are directed against internment; they have nothing whatever do with the to proposition, already embodied in law, that Roman Catholics and Protestants in N Ireland should enjoy equal citizenship. In fact, the movement aims, just like the IRA, at imposing on the people of N Ireland a revolution utterly repugnant to most of them. It does murder; it simply not creates conditions favourable to the murders attempted by others and leaves the army in the last resort with no alternative but to fire' Note the venomous and com- of plétely groundless sneer cowardice aimed at the marchers.

Unlike the anonymous editorialist they were only facing hundreds of armed and hostile troops without anything to defend themselves with. But in the 'Telegraph's' book that is crime enough, and justifies the their shooting. And if "Telegraph's' readers grew a little concerned later in the week about he revulsion inter- nationally he Derry over massacre, they could always draw comfort from their class brothers the Atlantic, the heroes across of My Lai and Attica. On Wednesday, the 'Telegraph' carried the following item to sagging Tory boost morale: 'Apart from the actions of such Americans of Irish ancestry as those who tried (unsuccessfully) to burn the Union Jack outside the British Consulate in New

BY JOHN SPENCER

York, reaction to the events in Londonderry has been extraord- inarily under-standing. [sic] • "The brief clips [scenes] of the Catholic demonstration shown on American television prove beyond doubt," writes the "New York Times" , "that the provocation for the troops was deliberate and great." 'The demonstration • itself was a self-advertised exercise in civil disobedience, a calculated vio- lation of the ban on all parades ordered two weeks ago by the Stormont Government. • "Having barred the Orange parade in advance in a courage- ous move to head off a worse Prime Minister Faulkner CrISIS, was bound to bar the Catholics.

The parade organizers thus deliberately embarked on provo- cation." ' And if the Tories still weren't farrago reassured by this they their Daily could always open Mail' and read how most of the victıms were either carrying guns or were wanted by the police: 'If the troops did panic-un- likely for such an experienced unit—it is remarkable that no women and children were shot •.. remarkable too that so many of those who were shot were armed or wanted men.. 'But even an authoritative in- report from Mr Maudling's quiry can only hope to diminish the legend of a massacre of the innocents. That legend is already taking hold of the feverish Irish imagin- ation. It is not the facts but what believe that counts in people Ireland' The 'Mail' next day the carried the even more ominous headline 'Paras ready to act again over a story that the same troops would be out again at Newry on Sunday when the Civil Rights marchers came through' The story quoted Tory De- fence Minister Lord Carrington to the effect that 'any unauthor- ized march would be halted and dispersed "however difficult the task might be"' The paras would be there: "The Cabinet feels that to keep the regiment out of action on Sunday would amount to an admission that they had been at fault in Londonderry. This could have a bad effect on army morale.' And in case another massacre took place, the alibis were ready in advance this time: 'The IRA is determined on Londonderry revenge for the deaths and security chiefs Ulster believe they may use the Newry march as cover for an on- slaught on British troops.'

The message was clear enough.

If you want the right to march, you forfeit the right to live.

The Tory papers expended considerable synthetic outrage the terrible threat over to democracy-not from the massacre of 13 civilians, but from an MP actually striking in the Home Secretary the hallowed chambers of West- minster. The burning of the British embassy in Dublin was equally heinous in their eyes. It was, as the 'Telegraph' was at some lengths to point out, worth £90,000 and had been 'pains- takingly restored' by the govern- ment. Which provides an accurate indication of the moral values of capitalism, where £90,000-worth of Georgian town-house counts higher than 13 human lives.

The final comment should be left to the 'Daily Express' which ° a milion nem: announced "There are ployed. Violence in Ulster. A national coal strike. Yet, in- credibly, the Tory government is getting more popular! 'Figures in the Harris Poll of Public Opinion reveal that Labour's lead has been cut from 16 to 6 per cent in the past two months. More people think the Tories are making a better job of running the country than Labour would. If believe that, you'll you literally believe anything!

Workers Preze, Thuraday February 10, 1972 PAGE 8 defer repayment of the 1970 loan for 20 years. Chinese com- ment refuses to admit the right Who is Hubert Schruebber?

of the people of Bangla Desh In 1934 German a miner, to self-determination and says 20 Karl Ringle, donated not one word in condemnation pfennig (a few pennies) to- of the bloody work carried the of freeing wards cause out by Yahya Khan's forces in political prisoners. In 1941, Bangla Desh. seven later, he years was China agreed that 'future sentenced to a Nazi labour camp for this 'crime'. relations between the two of Pakistan should parts be Who sent him? A man called established through Hubert Schruebber. negotia- tions between the elected Building worker Joseph leaders of the people Eifeler was thrown into with- the out foreign intervertion workhouse because he had ex- or influence'. pressed the opinion that the Soviet Union might win the Although not admitting that Bangla Desh is no longer part war. Pakistan, this formula of is Who responsible? was flexible enough to leave Hubert Schruebber. the way for recognition in Who is the president of the open the future. W German Commission for the While hypocritically repeat- defence of the Constitution? ing that 'countries want inde- Hubert Schruebber. pendence, nations want libera- tion and the people want revo- lution', Peking gives its full support to reaction in Pakis- A short-lived cable fault the tan, the Sudan and other coun- other day imparted a weird, of tries for reasons national quality almost surreal a interest. Press Association report of a House of Lords debate. Not PA's fault, just one of those infrequent flooks. Because of the alarming Dr H. A. Lyons, a psychiatrist 'yise' in the incidence of vene- at the Purdysburn hospital in real diseases, we told, were Belfast claims that the violence Baroness Gaitskell had asked there is helping to cure depres- for warnings against them to sions. all packets of be printed on Depression, the worthy doc- 'contraceptives tie'. declares, is tor the result of If you could beat off visions 'inhibition of aggressive of a rather alarming new responses to frustration' method of birth control, you No wonder the place is full could just about see what she of jolly paratroopers and meant. But there was worse happy policemen! to come. It doesn't seem to occur to 'Lady Summerskill, the this brilliant medico that telex burbled,; 'said that new people who normally attend being notieied cases were at for treatment are not follow- a terrible rate, mostly among zounf people' ing their routine in the abnor- mal conditions that now apply The zounf people? Wherever in Belfast. they are, it's obviously really Nor that so many people jumping have been driven into psy- chiatric illness Wilson since sent the troops in 1969 (to the applause of the International Peking gave President Bhutto Socialist group), that it has Pakistan become of enthusiastic an commonplace not worth seeing the doctor about.

welcome on his brief visit last It could week. He had detailed also be the a case, exchange of views with Chou of course, that many people in Belfast consider that the hos- En-lai and in a final com- muniqué the two leaders con- pitals have enough on their demned 'the naked aggression hands coping with the victims committed of police and army brutality.

by India against And yet, Pakistan'. The Pakistan leader there are some also met Mao Tse-tung. have been people who may The Chinese depressed, but who are not government depressed any more. has agreed to make four loans to Pakistan into grants and to They're dead.

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been the scene of the has violent picketing in most S Wales. Last Friday miners and even some of their wives from traditionally one of the more conservative pits on fought what the coalfield amounted to a pitched battle with police sent in to guard satety men. When two lorries carrying 20 NACODS (overmen, depu- ties and shotfirers) officials tried to leave the pit on Fri- day miners stormed reinforced police lines and physically forced the vehicles back. Miners' wives threw them- selves against the lorries.

It was only after union leaders might start warned they a riot that the vehicles were reluctantly allowed out-chased down the High Street by pickets banging on the windows and doors.

While the lorries were being pushed back, miner Derek Francis (46), of Mountain Ash, collapsed with a heart attack and was rushed to the intensive care unit of St Tydfils hospital, Merthyr. But the pickets won their point and the chairman of the Mountain Ash lodge of NACODS said their officials would not cross the lines again. The capitalist press were given a rough ride when they tried to picketing photograph and • equipment was smashed camera by jostling pickets. On Friday night as I drove through the of old and rows grey terrace houses it could have been Mount Pottinger or the Flats area of Belfast. Everybody was at the doors and windows of their houses or out in groups on the sidewalk.

At the end of the long narrow main street 350 men and wives with children struggled with an army of police with reinforce- around ments waiting every corner in their buses and panda cars. What had turned this grey, rainswept village isolated at the mountain-locked foot of the Aberdare valley into a battle- ground? Said lodge secretary Mike Griffin: 'I've never experienced it. The men anything like are completely solid. They're enthusi- astic, they want to do things meetings are packed. and our I don't think the men want to go back without the full claim and unless the Tories come out with a new offer they won't go back at all. "The ill-founded doctrinaire policy of the Tory government is that the cause of unemploy- ment is large wage increases, but week after week our standard of living is going down. 'Even if the government give amount, we'll still us the full be worse off in 12 months than we are today. of Tory policies "The effect across the board is to undermine basic rights-such as the right to a job and a living wage.

"The NUM should be calling for action from other unions. It • should point out that this strike is on behalf of all the unions.

'We've had a semblance of support from some transport workers and dockers, but not all of them. The TUC should

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•be encouraging the unions to take action. There should at least be demonstrations or one- day strikes in support of the miners.' Asked why Jack Jones and Hugh Scanlon, the 'left' leaders of the transport and engineering workers don't call their men out, Mr Griffin said: become 'I think they have unaware of the necessities of life.

They're conditioned to meeting the employers representatives in • a climate of mutual good will, but the men meet management circumstances. under different They know they are asking for more and they see management won't give it. the power 'Unity between workers has got to come. We produce it. They transport and burn it. It's obvious-coal, gas, oil, electricity—the energy unions should be fighting together. This call should be raised immediately by the NUM. 'The have clearly miners Tory government associated the with the NCB. I think everyone takes it. for granted that on their, record the Tories have got to get out. 'But I think the pressures are such now that any Labour government would have to for a complete change of policies.

'We want a group of people who understand that the goods we produce are ours. We work to get from the work the value of it and it's simply a question of sharing that value in a reason- able manner. 'I don't see the point of the profit side. We should all be together producing whatever there's a need for so that people can use it—not for profit.

"The Coal Board is being bled to death. When it was taken over in 1947, every ramshackle and defunct piece of equipment was put on paper as the owners' assets and a suitably inflated capital sum was agreed. 'This value was established on equipment the whole of which would have had to be replaced whoever owned the pits. 'So over the years we've been faced with the burden of interest payments on a fictitious capital

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DAY 32

On Monday, January 24, we carried an article Miners and the Tory government' by Wheldale pit worker and Socialist Labour League member Brian Lavery.

Since then we have been carrying the comments of other strikers on this article. Today have an we interview from Kent. RON JONES, back-worker at Snowdown pit in Kent, has been a miner for 47 years.

He began at Cory Brothers, Safety officlals, supply lorries Penrhiwceiber at the age of 14 and clerical staff and moved to Snowdown in 1935.

have met some He now lives the of the strongest at mining pickets in village of Aylesham, a mile from S Wales the pit, but as with all these Kent villages, in sight of the pit.

I can confirm Brian's opinion about nationalization. It's a ques- tion of what have been miners fighting for for years. 'We were glad to accept nationalization principle. We in were deluded by the fact that it the old bosses who were left in control. 'We under the were impres- sion that we would have a say in the of the pit. At running that time and in 1964 we thought the Labour government would do behalf something of the on workers. 'What we want is a nation- alized If union. we can have nationalization of industry, let's have nationalization of unions, with one proviso that no national should hold executive office for more than a period of five years. 'The heat and water at Snow- down mean that half the men are cripples. The worst thing of the lot is the dust and the mainten- work being neglected. ance 'In this strike I did 28} hours' picketing at Gravesend at a single I've just recovered scratch and from pneumonia. sum, plus the cost of borrowing from the government for new Asked about the question of equipment. leadership in relation to the mean workers' of the miners' success strike, Ron replied with absolute deci- wouldn't be matter _ or us siveness: consulting management as would be all entity, it 'Either they toe the line with separate of us as mineworkers consulting the workers or they get out.

together equally. I think the Workers Press has 'We want leaders who recog- given the true facts the as nize that the working people are miners see them today.' the only people who matter His 23-year-old son Ron, who they 90 are per cent of the used to work in the pit, but is population.' now unemployed, added: Besieged by telephone calls "The leadership of the union and Mr Griffin broke visitors should be motivated by the men off the interview to iron out and the not reverse order. problems from picketing arising believe when a resolution is put at Penrhiwceiber. forward by the men the say He concluded: If we are not them. I am should be with for going to be given a living wage, my dad's thinking with regard to we are prepared to say: let the the leadership. mines food 'And look at this Last weekend the NUM with- tion From 1947 business. to drew its that winding men so this year the NCB has paid out officials from noW on even £300m £600m instead of as succeed in across the getting agreed. picket lines (although they have try) they will 'We're still paying interest on not to unable down the pit the sterling balance because of to get devaluation and inflation.'

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BY DAVID MAUDE OUR INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT

TELEGRAPHISTS at overseas cable headquarters in London expect to hear details within the next fortnight of a new pay-and-productivity offer from the Post Office •.. but there is some doubt if they will be allowed to reject it.

The productivity aspects of the proposed deal are the first stage of a computer- ization programme which could destroy 40 per cent of jobs in the service by 1973.

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Yet in the teeth of oppo- sition from the headquarters branch of the Union of Post Office • Workers, the union exécutive is allowing engineer- ing work on the first phase of the programme to go ahead. Kim McKinley, the execu- tive member who negotiates for the telegraphists, told Workers Press yesterday that she had done this on the basis of the 'majority view' among the branches. "Telegraphists stand to gain great deal out of this,' she said.

'We were on a • knife-edge—if we'd held up the engineering work as Electra House wanted, the Post Office would probably have withdrawn from the whole thing. 'I've a great deal of sympathy with the view that we should see the money first, but some- times as an executive officer one has to take a lead.' Branch-committee members at Electra House, however, say that at a meeting with them last week Miss McKinley admitted she was taking the decision away from the branch because she feared 'the wrong decision' might be made. An estimated 200 jobs could immediately when the engineering work - designed to.

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It is clear that having given substantial increases in order to Measured-Day Work in, get British-Leyland is now deter- mined to make MDW effectively control wage rates. Workers Press, Thursday February 10, 1972 PAGE 11

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BY AN INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT

THREE BIG ifs surround the f prepare for a key meeting with almost seven months of work hinges on massive financial aid 1 The policies of the Com- munist Party - led

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stewards' co-ordinating com- mittee, which have held back mass action on the Clyde to force the Tories out, are once more threatened with ex- posure. Detailed plans for launching Shipbuilders Ltd, the Govan government-sponsored rump com- pany based on Govan, the Lint- house steel yard and possibly are now before the Scotstoun, Cabinet. They will cost at least £25m. If the Tories decide not to spend the money, the men will where they were in be back August facing a stand-up fight and with the government alternative of an urgent need leadership to carry it through.

Assuming the cash is forth- the orders situation is coming still grim. Scotstoun is rapidly running out of work and, if present form continues, even Govan itself will be jobless within a year. Lord Strathalmond, the chair- man of the new company, says: start without 'We cannot even the order book being built up.'

The biggest question-mark, still hangs the however, over John Brown's yard former at Clydebank. Marathon Manufacturing, a Texas oil-rig company, still 'very interested' making a takeover bid. But it will be two make a weeks before it will firm decision. If Marathon pulls out, im- mediate redundancies are almost certain to be declared, since the liquidator's six-week stay of on these runs out at execution the end of the month. on strike HYDERABAD police in Pakis- tan are on strike because they claim they do not have enough of powers to control breaches law and order. All police stations in the city -100 miles NE of Karachi-were closed on Tuesday and in the evening police paraded through the streets shouting slogans in support of their demands.

The policemen later occupied • at their head- the armoury quarters. The strike started on the same day that Pakistan's Presi- dent Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto warned senior police officers and local officials about the situation.

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from factories throughout the E Birmingham industrial belt will strike today and march to the Saltley coke depot, scene of three days of clashes with police. The call was made by E Birmingham branch of the Amalgamated Union of Engineer- ing Workers. day February 10, 1972 nd the future of the upper Clyde ship ing with Industry Minister John Dav of work-in the fate of 8,000 jobs a cial aid from the Tory government.

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The fate of the Marathon bid again appears to rest largely with the Heath Cabinet, which has been asked for assurances on re- lief of import duty on equipment needed from the US. Even then the company says it will initially need only about 2,000 men. This would mean the sack for 1,200. James Airlie, CP chairman of the UCS stewards, says the 'kid gloves would be off' if the Tories fail to provide the £25m needed to start Govan. And yesterday's 'Morning Star' muttered darkly that hard-line contingency plans were being prepared. The CP, however, remains firmly committed to pressuring Tories opposing the and any struggle to force its resignation.

STRIKERS at three British Air- Corporation plants in craft Lancashire are asking how much government pressure there : has been not to settle their 12t-per- cent, no-strings pay claim.

The 3,500 military-aircraft workers at Preston, Warton and Samlesbury are fighting a man- agement offer of a flat-rate pay system with incentive bonuses tied to work-measurement.

A company leaflet guarantees redundancies direct as a no result of the new wages struc- ture, which has given rise to indirect suspicions about its effects.

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FROM IAN YEATS IN S WALES

S WALES miners' response to yesterday's declaration of a state of emergency was deniant: troops. But if they're not very careful the way this Tory government is going there will be revolution here, Ogilvie lodge secretary Evan Jones told me.

'We are heading for a Bloody coal industry, that's up to them.

Sunday. The miners fighting 'If they try to use troops under which is the a just case, same state of the emergency regula- as that of the people of Ulster.

would only be tions, they In- We are fighting for the right to flaming the situation and there live and the right to work.'

could be real trouble.

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(miners' Ray Sayce, "The crunch will come in the section) colliery union clerical fortnight when the strike next Marine representative at pit, has really had a chance to bite.

If they Ebbw Vale, told me: If the

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will to They will have to come unions. other unions to act. out and support the ininers be- If they don't, it's time to go are broken the cause workmen, to the rank to the Tories will break all the unions.

file, Up and for support at He added: 'The workmen have Vale dozens o said we Ebbw bring this government to the steel works have said got to heel or be driven into the ground.

should be out with you" and ehind the miner everyone think is 'The Tories are putting a hell of a lot of pressure on the miners, especially with the police. They've been allowing pickets to

DENABY MAIN

not with people their discuss case Thursday February 10, 7.30 pm trying to go to work' (The Drum) And Marine NUM lodge chair-

DONCASTER

man John Holloway also critic- Sunday February 13, 7.30 pm ized the police: They are not The Nelson' letting us approach lorries to (near Southern Bus Station) of view. That's put our point why some of the trouble occurred.

should back off a The police Waterloo talks little bit. Commenting yesterday's on tripartite talks between the NUM,

UNION

representatives

RAIL

the NCB and the government Mr met the British Rail- yesterday didn't expect Holloway said: Board in London for talks ways anything to come from the talks.

over the dispute which has cut "The feeling London's mem- rail services into among They've come bers has hardened. Waterloo station for the past and eney think tony hou years ten days. they why should and we The unofficial work-to-rule by have to do this every year.

Union Thursday February 10

CONWAY HALL

8 p.m. Young Socialists Natlonal Right to Work Campaign from Glasgow to London arrives in

CARLISLE

Saturday February 12

COME TO OUR RALLY

SUNDAY FEBRUARY 13

City Hall Carlisle, 7.00 p.m. Directed by Corin Redgrave Written by Tom Kempinski G. HEALY (SLL National Secretary)

VANESSA REDGRAVE

JOHN BARRIE (YS leader of march from Scotland) Admission 25p