NUM leaders retreating on the wages fight

THE MINERS' claim for wage increases of up to £7 Der week can onlv be won bv determined action against the government. Heath lays down the law leath lays down the law about £2 wage increases there are signs that the workers' leaders want tr workers' leaders want to abandon the pay fight altogether.

President Joe Gormley says the claim will be decided at the October 12 executive meeting and that it is negotiable.

So, even before the claim is submitted, the Coal Board is told that union leaders don't really expect to get it!

Gormley and his supporters are clearly in favour of a lower claim than that decided at the NUM conference in July.

And Saturday's executive meeting in Blackpool accepted the need for improved productivity to justify government support' for the mining industry.

This followed discussions with Tory Minister for Industry Tom Boardman, who demanded 'detailed agreement on producAhe industry there ore andertakes that concerned will make the maximum and most economic use of its own resources and of the financial assistance to be provided, so that it may have a viable future.

It is essential that total costs should be kept in line with the achievement of this objective. The industry has agreed that wage negotiations should be pursued within the terms the agreed conciliation procedures and, in the event of disagreement, the fullest consideration would be given to arbitration, so as to avoid industrial action, if possible?

So the miners' leaders are not only willing to co-operate completely with the NCB and Tory speed-up and closures-they also accept the Tory version or me industry's financial difficulties.

This places the responsibility for the current £118m loss on the backs of the miners.

The recent seven-week strike is said to have cost £157m. But this is the responsibility of the Board and the government.

If union leaders accept that the men are to blame for losses incurred during a strike and have to work harder to make them up, they are accepting the principle of Taff Vale-that unions are financially responsible to the bosses for losses caused by The trade union movement has fought against that principle for No end to the bloodbath in • Ulster LECTURES THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF MAR given by (SLL national London Historical materi Sunday October EAST HAM TOWN HALL Lister Room Barking Rd, Liverpool Sut as premier Edward Ibout £2 wage increases, lational Union of Mineabandon the pay fight Instead of co-operating with the employers, the union leaders must be compelled to wage a real fight for the f7 claim.

They must be forced to carry out the decisions of the union conference and to break off all collaboration with the Tories. WHILE the various parts of the Provisional IRA thrash about like the arms of some great headless monster from one extreme of policy to another, the iron fist of Tory law and order smashes deeper into their ranks.

During a weekend of violence in Ulster, British army bullets swept the streets of Belfast and Derry shooting down virtually anyone who even so much as put his hand in his pocket.

An 18-year-old youth on a rooftop watching the Belfast funeral ¡Procession of a waiter killed bomb blast at a Catholic club last Wednesday was shot dead. Afterwards the army said he was a gunman.

As men of the Royal Anglians moved in to recover the body a soldier was killed by a sniper.

The killings triggered a hail of bullets from both sides which forced families in streets throughout the Catholic Lower Falls district to crouch on the floors of their homes for two hours.

During the firing, in which the army say they were up against at least 12 gunmen, a 20-yearold woman was shot dead.

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Significantly he made no mention withdrawing British troops, ending internment and the ultimate future of Ireland.

While the Tories drive one section of the IRA back to the paths of bourgeois virtue, there is no sign that northern leaders of the IRA share Brady's optimism about the outcome of a new peace initiative.

Since the last one, when Provo leaders the Six Counties described Whitelaw as a man with nothing left to give, terror has if anything increased.

Derry IRA leader Sean Keegan said on Saturday in direct opposition to Brady that there could be no peace in Ulster until the British army was withdrawn and internment ended.

Recession, coupled with civil war, has taken a crippling , toll of Ulster industry. Now cheap imported shirts are closing factory after factory in virtually the last major industry left in the Six Counties.

After nearly four years of war, unemployment and poverty in Ulster are worse than ever-and both sectarian working-class communities are feeling the pinch.

That is the real meaning of Vanguard leader William Craig's UDI ultimatum to the Tory government at a 15,000-strong Loyalist rally in Belfast on Saturday.

Craig said that if Protestants could not 'win their rights' through the ballot box, they would be forced to turn to the bullet and go it alone.

Ultimately terror on either side is doomed to failure. Recession lies at the root of the continuing crisis in Ulster and the only answer is in the unity of Protestant and Catholic and British and Irish workers to force the Tory government to resign and return a Labour government pledged to socialist policies.

An. essential part of these policies would be to bring about an end to internment and the withdrawal of the British army. THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE Fill in the form below and send to NATIONAL SECRETARY, SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE, 186A CLAPHAM HIGH ST, LONDON, SW4 7UG. 7.30 8.00 8.30 9.00 TV CORONATION STREET.

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