A CLASP OF HANDS AND A TYNESIDE TRADES UNION WELCOME

Right-to-Work TEN-Newcastle WE'VE MADE it to Newcastle. Before us lie two days of short treks through the industrial towns of Tyneside, including the community which came to symbolize the hungry 1930sJarrow.

We are in morrow night then we will wal Shields for the DRAMATIC ARRIVAL : The march into Newcastle today gave us a big boost. Five miles outside the town the lads who are joining us at Tyneside met the column.

Danny Holland from Renton, Dunbartonshire, and Keith Radford, an unemployed bus conductor from Tyneside, clasped hands and then we moved • off into the city.

Our arrival was quite dramatic—we marched through the narrow streets of the old working-class quarter near the centre.. The district was even blacker than usual. The whole area was hit by a power cut— the combination seemed to typify today's situation, the slums and the people cheering, the marchers FACTORY SUPPORT FOR SWANSEA MARCH 'GREAT' THE Young Socialists have organized nationwide Right-toWork marches to show the Tories the working class are not prepared to put up with a million on the dole, campaign national secretary Clive Norris told a Swansea press conference on Wednesday. youth, including five girls, would set out from Swansea on Saturday on a 300-mile trek to London for a mass rally at the Empire Pool, Wembley, a demonstration in Trafalgar Square and a lobby of Labour MPs at Westminster, he told reporters. we've got from factories and unions for our three marches throughout the country is tremendous and we think support will flow in because of the correctness of our policy to mobilize the working class and remove the Tories. ing to Victor Feather and the Labour leaders either they've got to get off their knees and fight the Tories, or there are other people who will take over.

shouting for the right to work and the unseen miners exercising their own power of solidarity two vans with food, camp beds against the Tory government. from Hexham (22 miles) we had a chance to return some of the hospitality that the miners have unstintingly shown to us on our journey. We passed a picket line and decided to have our dinner there. We handed the food round so the men from Havanah colliery also got a good feed.

Jarrow toopen-cast site and they have for our tea, succeeded in stopping movement k on to South night. support from the working class. The Trades Council paid for a warm church hall near the city centre and two brewery branches of the Transport and General Workers' Union donated £50 for food and sat the whole march down to a three-couse meal in a Chinese restaurant. delegation who met us outside the city was Gordon Steel, the secretary of the Trades Council. I had a chat with him as we marched into the city. He is a said this did not prevent him said this did not prevent from giving us wholehearted support. simply because you are fighting for the right-to-work' , he said. • think it is a fantastic achievement for you to have marched so far. A lot of organizations and splinter groups have mounted their own campaign about this vicious Tory policy, but yours is by far the most impressive and ambitious so far.' and sleeping bags, but we'll be getting most of our food along the route. The whole march is being financed by the working class and they'll feed us along the way? sacked eight months ago from BP's Baglan Bay chemical plant, and secretary of the Swansea More than 30 unemployed sick of the Tory government's policies and I think this is the only way we can fight. were sacked by BP because we were fighting for basic rights, more pay and better conditions. Because we went on strike they Said Clive Norris: 'The support sacked the lot of us.' city on Sunday morning after a demonstration and rally against unemployment and the Tories on Saturday. to have trade union delegations "The marchers will also be sayfrom Port Talbot steelworks and Baglan Bay to see the march off and there is the possibility of a band. been contacted for support and some of them are giving dona"The marchers will be taking tions or collecting in their facWE DEMAND RIGHT WORK Earlier in the day on the way They were guarding Horsey At Newcastle we got good One of the men on the Mr Steel told me that unem'We decided to back you cent-that's as bad as Glasgow.

I asked him about the deteragainst our campaign. 'Whatever the politics of this tories or sending delegations the start of the march' The marchers set out from University college, Swansea on Sunday at 10 a.m. on the first leg of their journey as far as Neath. Saturday's 2.30 p.m. Swansea-born Gary Jenner (19), rally at Page St YMCA will follow a march through the town from Calvert Terrace beginning at 12.30 p.m.

Right-to-Work committee, said:

I am marching because I'm 'One hundred and fifty of us The Swansea march leaves the Said Clive Norris: 'We hope 'All the major factories have Labour Party!' We had a lively meeting in Mr Steel referred to.

'We in the Young Socialists determination shows that working class.' Unfortunately today we had fit. See you later Fred.

YOUNG SOCIALISTS' LONDON Right-to-Work Meetings Tuesday February T&GWU Offices, 173, Clapham Road, S Wednesday February Woolwich Town Hall (public hall)

Market St, SE 18 Thursday February Ruskin House, Coombe Rd, S Croydon Thursday Februa Recreation Centi Old Bedford Rd, Luton.

LASGOW KILMARNOCK CUMNOCK SANQUHAR THORNHILL DUMFRIES FARLIS NAN WHiSTLE Speakers:

Gerry Caughey (Pilkington and-file committee)

Bill Measures (Pilkington and-file committee)

Larry Cavanagh (T&GWU steward) ( Bernard Bradley (Ford's venor)

Jack Spriggs (Convenor Bendix)

Cliff Slaughter Committee Christine Smith Liverpool march)

_iverpool St for SUNDAY Town NEW HAM YOUNG SOCIALISTS NATIONAL RIGHT-TOWORK CAMPAIGN RALLIES to launch SWANSEA and LIVERPOOL marches IS SATURDAY FEB St Georges Hall opp. Lime St Stn Liverpool 3 p.m. (SLL Central (YS leader YMCA SWANSEA 3 p.m.

SLL, YS and trade unic speakers march arrives HELENS a raily on FEBRUARY Hall, 7 p.m. see our documentary play THE ENGLISH REVOLUTION Directed by Corin Redgrave Written by Tom Kempinski followed by a meeting Speakers:

Gerry Caughey, Christine Sn and Gerry Healy, (National S retary of the Socialist Lab League)

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