REMEMBER THIS? IRA BURN SCAB COAL LORRIES

BY OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT ith POLISH COAL is being taken from the Republic of Ireland across the border into Ulster to break the miners' strike.

The Official wing of the IRA has hit back at : the strike-breakers by hi-jacking lorries with 'scab' coal and burning them.

A statement from the Official has to pay, is the defeat of the working class.

living of millions of working-class families.

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EARLEY POWER STAT cent final offer by the NCB.

The paper's editor warns:

taining inflation are gone.

instrument to fight inflation.' immediately!

with the miners.

argue for a 'softly, softly' line.

ment out.

There are millions of people in Britain and today who are just waiting for such a signal.

'We warn all other strikebreakers that similar treatment will be meted out to them unless they cease these activities immediately?

More details of the daring hijacking came from one of the lorry drivers. He told local pressmen that he was stopped at gunpoint on the road between Carrickarnon and Killeen customs post by about a dozen They forced him to empty his 20-ton load of coal on the road and then set fire to his vehicle. Other motorists who appeared on the scene were ordered back at An importer at Dundalk told the local press he had despatched 'thousands of tons' of Polish coal to Ulster. He said it was more profitable to sell in the N because of the present shortage caused by the miners' strike.

The Irish Times'" said yesterday that between 30 and 50 lorries each carrying 50 tons of Polish coal are crossing the border into Ulster each day.

Imported

Sources in Londonderry told imported coal had been in circulation for about two or three weeks. This is not the first time that Polish imports have been used in Ireland for strike-breaking.

It last occurred in June 1970 during the prolonged strike of 750 workers at Cement Limited in Drogheda and Limerick.

During this dispute, Workers Press obtained unchallengeable proof—we published the cargo manifestos on our front page— that Polish cement was being brought in.

At the time we demanded: "When are the leaders of the British Communist Party going to break their despicable silence and denounce the international strike-breaking activities of the Polish Stalinist government?' We never received an answer. The British CP and the 'Morning Star' kept their silence.

Today, we ask the tion and the miners Britain join us:

When will Gollan and company denounce this latest strikebreaking by the Polish Stalinists? others emptied onto the roadway for the use of the local people.

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