Defend democratic rights: Rally at Empire Pool, Wembley Sunday March Il

THE 'Road to Workers' Power' campaign has received another enthusiastic reception—this time in the north-east. About 250 trade unionists, housewives and youth packed the Marine and Technical College, South Shields, for the campaign's first public event in the area.

Judging from their response to a grand cabaret sponsored by the Young Socialists and by Jarrow and South Shields Trades Councils, the campaign is going to be a roaring success. ught. after the successiul launchin n Middleton, Manchester On Sunday, March I1, working-class families from Manchester, Merthyr Tydfil and Jarrow and South Shields will take part in a monster pageant of labour history at the Empire Pool, Wembley, in London.

For the day Empire Pool will be the scene of unique and spectacular re-enactment of working-class history before workers from all over Britain. The Pool, the largest enclosed auditorium in the country, can seat 10,000 spectators.

The north-east contribution will be the story of the first miners' unionformed in Jarrow in 183l.

One of the miners' leaders, Jobling, was hanged and gibbetted after being framed tor murder. His body was hung chains for three weeks on Jarrow Slate in a bid to kill the spirit of trade unionism in the area.

Last Friday night's abaret skilfully incororated glimpses of the determination of workers in struggle with working-class contempt for the hypocrisy and decadence of the ruling class.

After songs from Lisa Martin and a side-splitting though macabre, CRATCh from Malcolm Tierney and David Hargreaves, compère Peter Armitage read to a hushed audience a letter written by a striking miner from Cowpen colliery to his employer in 1831.

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deters to fight for inary Tom Rederape ridiculed Corin the scandals and foibles of the ory government in the white tie ester tails setting Western Brothers sequence.

Corin Redgrave later joined Maggie Nolan take-off of the activities of those rapacIous financiers, the asset-strinners Weeks', ine 1844 Durham miners' strike, again had the ence CaSt in thoughtful silence.

BBC 1 7.30 CORONATION STREET. 8.00 WORLD IN ACTION. 8.30 BLESS THIS HOUSE. It Comes to Us All in the End. 9.00 CONJUGAL RIGHTS. 10.00 NEWS AT TEN. 0.30 THE SPIRIT OF LONDON. With Carol Channing, Ted Rogers, David Berglas, The Norman Maen Da Harris. 1.30 DRIVE IN. 12.00 WORLD WAR I. 12.30 EPILOGUE. DRIVE FROM DAVID MAUDE IN The South Shields cabaret was held last Friday of the campaign response to Pageant Hector Gowland... appeal About 35,000 men, women and children were evicted from their houses in the Durham coalfield during the course of that strike.

But, as at Middleton, the hit of the evening was the final song, "The Road Workers' Power', in which the whole company and Students' grants campaign gains strength THIRTY-FIVE student unions are taking part in he fees and grants cam aign which has beel escalating since the autumn, the National Union of Students has said.

Iwenty-two universities six polytechnics and on‹ college of art are staging Long rent strikes aimed at securLa teason hall residence fees and higher grants.

Seven other student unions may decide to join TODAY'S TV Pebbl chool: • Blu hools.

| First in de Three good many of of the audience joined.

Delegations attending the cabaret included miners from Westoe, Monkwearmouth and Dawdon collieries; boilermakers from the Swan Hunter and other Tyneside yards; a large group of women workers who took part in the successful Barbours' Rainwear strike; strikers from the three - week - old Coles Cranes sit-in.

Jimmy Inskip, secretary of the Westoe lodge of the miners' union, said he was sure that the campaign would win big support from miners in the area.

They had shown their the campaign in few days.

Where rent strikes are being held the students are withholding their money and paying it into a special fund.

The NUS also announced it will launch a new campaign in support of a f20m rise in the level of student grants.

University chancellors as a body have twice appealed to the Tory government to increase grants, but were REGIONAL TV determination to defend their trade union rights in the case of the Westoe miner who had taken them to an Industrial Tribunal.

The lodge the campaign the actors modation.

Josie Lloyd, leader of the strike which organized Barbours, said that the pageant campaign was what was needed to make people aware of the scale of attack being launched on them by the Tories.

And Hector Gowland, chairman of the draughtsmen's union members at Coles Cranes, said he would told there was no prospect of a further review of the rates.

The Association of University Teachers is also sympathetic to the students' case.

The NUS claims that because of inflation, many students have been reduced to starvation levels and are suffering real hardship.

Writing in 'New Society' this week, Essex University sociology reader Mr Ernest itself backed by providing with accomARDOURS 3X RAN definitely be at the Empire Pool on March 11.

He appealed for financial and other support from local trade unionists.

Rudd said that students were worse off today than they were ten • years ago, even though their parents were paying a higher percentage of their income towards their maintenance than they were in 1962.

There would be a major confrontation between students and the government unless something was done to help them soon, said Southampton University's vice-Chancellor Professor Tom Kempinski, Corin grave and Lisa Martin seen during rehearsals.

• TOMORROW night the campaign will be launched at Merthyr Tydfil. The cabaret will be staged at the Pentrebach Labour Club, Pentrebach, Merthyr Tydfil, at 7.30 p.m.

• FOR FULL details of the Empire Pool, Wembley, rally and pageant on Sunday, March II, see the advertisement on page 12. Tickets available from 186a Clapham High Street, London, SW4 7UG.

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