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THE MOST DECISIVE Members of parliament Market Bill, the legislatir There is no doubt that clear majority of people in Britain are totally opposed to membership.

It is equally clear that had the Tories announced in their 1970 election manifesto that a Tory government would enter Europe without consulting the electorate, they would have been soundly defeated.

Opposition to the market developed last year throughout the trade unions' national conferences. teren soch reached and take Labour Party annual conferences rejected Britain's entry by overwhelming majorities.

world market position (and big profits) by stepping up their exploitation the working class.

It is entirely dominated by big industrial groups like Krupps, Thyssen, Pirelli, Montecatini, Fiat, Peugeot, Shell Petroleum, Siemens, Bayer, and Hoesch.

Entry fee

They are demanding that the Tory government pay the entry fee-straighten up British capitalism by smashing the working class.

Heath and his cabinet of merBe today. common into the the standard of living of millions of working-class families.

Any Labour MP who votes or abstains in today's critical vote aids this conspiracy. They should be expelled, irrespective of whether Heath gets his majority.

Yesterday Ray Gunter, the former Labour minister Wilson's cabinet, resigned. (See p.4).

At least Gunter is honest. He's been flushed out of the labour movement in this critical hour to go off to the Tory roost where he belonged years ago.

The scene is now set for a bringing together of the political fight over the market and the Coal Board chairman Derek Ezra leaving the Wilberforce inquiry yesterday. See story p.12. Leader of the Liverpool-London march, 16-year-old Christine Smith, speaking on unemployment on a previous occasion in PROTEST POST OFFICE workers in Edinburgh have protested over the handcuffing of arrested miners' pickets when they appeared in Dunfermline Sherriff Court charged with 'mobbing and rioting'.

Officials of the Edinburgh outdoor branch of the Union of Post Office Workers gave a letter of protest to Gordon Campbell, Scottish Secretary, in Edinburgh yesterday. The letter described the handcuffing of the miners as 'utterly disgraceful'.

The pickets were arrested after an angry clash between miners and police outside Longannet power station in Fife on Monday.

The petition against the men alleged that they 'formed part of a riotous mob of evil disposed persons which, acting with a common purpose, did conduct itself in a violent, riotous and tumultuous manner to the great terror and alarm of the lieges, and in breach of the peace did curse, swear, and utter threats of violence'.

The accused were remanded in custody after being refused bail.

Several busloads of miners who had come from early morning picket duty at Longannet were prevented from entering the court when the Sheriff of Dunfermline took the unprecedented step of closing the whole court building to the public.

TUC general secretary Victor Feather and STUC general secretary James Jack have also protested at the treatment of the arrested men.

Norman Wylie, Lord Advocate, has announced that he will investigate the circumstances surrounding the court hearing.

The Liverpool march kicks off on Saturday with trade unionists joining a demonstration through the city followed by a mass meeting. At the head of the march will be Jim Allen, who wrote the TV plays "The Lump', 'The Big Flame' and Rank and File', and Neville Smith, whose latest success is the film 'Gumshoe.

The meeting will be addressed by several leading Merseyside trade unionists including Fisher-Bendix convenor Jack Spriggs as well as speakers from the Rightto-Work committee and the The march hits the road on Sunday morning from the Pierhead Liverpool. It will stop in Kirkby for mid-day and' reach St Helens in the evening, where there will be a meeting with a performance of the play "The English Revolution'. • For news of the GlasgowLondon march see p.3.