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THE DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE Coal Board offer withdrawn £1,250 Fund Tories declare now £202.61 war on miners Immediately let's have bis etissible raise Fund. sit all on ions to: Workers Press Appeal Fund, 186a Clapham High Street, London, SW4. What 1,200 vote for new firmly in control and WORKERS PRESS pledges its complete support to the miners in their struggle to defend their we and conditions against the political weekly 'Keep Left' think wages Sheik Mujib in minions in the National Coal Board. and its onslaught of the Tory 21 vears The Tory

BY MICHAEL BANDA

government fighting for talks with Heath determied lo starve beat this government on it!

paraly, needs the miners back to work which hardy, scarion the enem ano cereat unem ratner principles than concede their just Amalgamated Snior people agree BanglaDesh will claim to a vine wace.

IF THE

have Feneral Miserone of keep including Tito parleys links with all countries Pakistan, Sheikh Mujibur testimon London or with fascism Cabinet will be to let he

BY AN YEATS

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135 struggle waged Pors page 4 for cuninte the Labor no-string AGM delegates vote for the expansion Bendix TWELVE HUNDRED Young Socialists and supporters of 'Keep Left' blacked meeting in London on Saturday unanimously approved plans for weekly Martins said the four OECI paper from March this year.

production of the Trotskyist youth reight tro agreed that dockers of govern elected at its Annual Gene directly.

BY JOHN SPENGCH

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workers press The daily paper that leads the fight against the Tory government INCORPORATING THE NEWBLETTEN • MONDAY JANUARY 10, 1972 • NUMBER 658 THE DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE Coal Board offer withdrawn £1,250 Fund Tories declare noW £202.61 answer struggle. war on miners copies yourself to sell. Workers Press Appeal Fund, 1oba Clapnam High sureel, London. Sw4. What 1,200 vote for new The question on WORKERS PRESS pledges its complete support we to the miners in their struggle to defend their weekly 'Keep Left' wages and conditions against the political think Sheik Mujib in onslaught of the Tory government and its ninions in the National Coal Board 21 years

BY MICHAEL BANDA

government fighting for to starve talks with Heath is determined

UN SALESS

the miners back to work and defeat them rather

ONLY A GENERAL

principles

STRIE CAN MAKE

concede just than Their

PAPER VOLUTIONARY

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claim to a living wage.

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Bangla Desh will have people agree See in Londone Annual Tito parleys with Pakistan,

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Sheikh Mujibur Rahman said in London on with fascism Saturday. the 28

BY IAN YEATS

280,000 miners sweat He said: I have nothing Yeaders save been holdin But UK revoranonary people principles. agairst the talks monthly keep Let i Begun Pakistan. Of course Yahya trom Uk Khan was bad, but I have leaders which can notning against them. countries are dictatorship. •m she Mediin ranean area. tionary youth. seekin . the language Car pay Now lication It is the lan mise causes chaos PAY RAIn in the ca initus over 13,00 Scotick, It is in forefront of tr continue i pot n with 13,000 Scottish, Midlands Social to rally the workers laid-off The new wave Working class the Right to Torie oor reviveded economies are to b to 1420 is to espiose the orday i a represented at Aileen Retirins eartor ings stressed at skyist leadersalp in tie unions.

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• Left against te 4 for coalfield so page eport: leadership. AGM delegates vote for the expansion.

start that Bendix paper TWELVE HUNDRED Young Socialists and supporters of 'Keep Left' industrial develop- blacked meeting in London on Saturday unanimously approved plans for weekly nations ne Trotskyist youth paper from March this year.

General production of the ald the four or miners on Portugalding up Lo the fox of their ment blacked thor notectrical pro- red at its Apers diror, lacked

BY JOHN SPENCER

solidarity to exploit miners directly.

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PAGE TWO Workers Press, Monday January 10, 1972' report by Stephen Johns A special POLITICS in Ireland at first appear to be a welter of confusion and contradiction. The most coherent reply on the future for workers N and S is often a shrug of the shoulders. who Party that the two Tory govern- Yet people are steer round the ments hope to rendered speechless can also thorny issues of internment, the brutal of the

IRA

fight and die to give expres- suppression and the border issue. to the political forces sion Labour leader Harold Wilson they feel. And everyone will acted as catalyst and it is he who admit that 1972 will be the at present is calling the appar- ently reluctant SDLP leaders to most decisive year in the talk. country's modern history.

Soy it andy Done ok Gerry Paddy Devlin, of the With the uprising Hulme, Ivan Cooper Austin Cur- Catholic working class in the N Paddy O'Hanlon, have rie and the collapse against army terror, that held to their posture no of the traditional Ulster Unionist talks can proceed without the instability rule and the extreme release of every single internee.

of the 'green' Tory in regime "settlement' the S, the political 1922 has outlived its Untenable reached 1n use for British imperialism.

A new 'solution' must be found But this is a surface appear- colonial rule ance from a movement born out to guarantee 1n of the most rotten Britain's oldest colony. opportunism. The SDLP is a bastard organiza- This bid to preserve property tion formed when several counties will throughout the 32 Stormont's 'independent' MPs reach its first climax when poli- decided to form a parliamentary parties and governments outflank the old tical opposition Britain Eire, Ulster and Nationalist Party in the N.

from meet for talks on the crisis in the The spur to this development N. possibly at the end was the tremendous upsurge and month. Unionist rule by the resistance to Catholic working class. Handmaidens Men like Fitt originally Republican Labour, Hulme (inde- The ring-master of the drama pendent' Civil Rights), Paddy will be the Tory government. Its that Devlin (ex-N Ireland Labour have decided ministers Party), to form of forces is needed came together new alliance the SDLP two years ago. to guarantee their oppressive grip working class. on the Irish They had no real programme beyond The Tories the the vague promises on are witnessing 'civil rights'. Their policy on key old dissolution of their hand- maidens, the Ulster Unionist gov- issues like nationalization, work- The reactionary squires ers' control and unemployment rapidly unclear. As an organization of Stormont are losing was the SDLP was untenable, but its their grip on the Protestant dema- main aim, after all, was not working class to street coherence, but to head gogues like the Rev Ian Paisley political and Desmond Boal. off the Catholic working class for mutual political benett. In the S, Eire premier Jack Now the delicate alliance is losing Lynch is increasingly beginning to break up and intern- the forces of militant ground to the rock threatens Republicanism. Even the hint of ment is that to wreck the creaking ship.

and campaign internment IRA is the enough to against

SDLP

Westminster Fitt cause immediate riots example is MP - for ready and villages. this His compromise on issue. So their mutual advantage original draft for his recent to Ulster speech on the

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gramme last week said this: tions have decided some agree- future of capitalist ment on Tine Ireland must be reached. Admission are that the solu- Indications tion envisaged by the Tory lead- .. internment must be ended.

ers will involve a period of direct If any compromise is offered on Westminster over this, such as bringing of charges the appointment of a commission against selected internees, then and eventual federal some this too must be quickly granted, N and for there are many hundreds of between arrangement with full Irish unity relegated to people caught up in the present a vague rumour. violence serving lons terms of imprisonment.' Thorny In other words, 'promise us you will try the guilty IRA men the and Of course, this would and to release rest about the N or the Gerald Fitt will talk satisfy workers in therefore the key ele- federal solution'. and fabric ments in erecting this new A whisper that Fitt was about middle- the oppression Devin one of his orna, cate admission politicians, the reformist class and right-wing variety. Devlin cate- Talies whiter Petse and ftee gorialle denying. that there would talks before all so-called Ulster and men any were released. is essential at the internees like Paisley But the odds are that talks. SDLP will come to the con- the of It with the politicians ference table. the Catholic-backed Social Demo- for Labour Party and the They waiting some cratic Democratic Unionist Tory bone pledge Protestant some The dally paper hal leads the Aght against the Tories. {17.12 for 12 months (312 issues) {8.56 for 6 months (156 Issues) {4.29 for 3 months (78 Issues) If you want to take Workers Press twice a wook the rates are: £1.32 for 3 months (24 issues) £5.28 for 12 months (96 issues Fill in the form below NOW and send to : Checulation Depl., Workers Prose, 186a Clapham High S1., London. SWA. - - I would like to take out a subacription to Workers Press.

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Name Address 1922 : IRA section moves down Graft internment or the Special Powers Act) that they can throw to their constituents to 'prove' that a significant 'concession' has been 'forced out of the political mas- ters at Westminster. Then the oppression can con- tinue - perhaps under direct Westminster control - with emergency régulations giving the authorities dictatorial powers to arrest and jail the IRA. Mean- while the boys in the SDLP get round the table and sort out Ireland's future with the Tories.

Treachery The greatest political ally of these opportunists is the Civil Rights Association-now domin- ated by the Communist Party of Ireland - which, in the great name of 'left' unity, provides a platform for Fitt and company.

The great aim is to shift these MPs further to the left; in fact the CRA always ends up tailor- ing its policies to suit the parli- amentarians. The CP has been desperate for a political role in the CRA since its inception. Its desire for office can be judged by the fact that when Republican executive members of the

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were interned in August last year, the CP's first move was to fly out new cadres to be co-opted onto the commit- tée, in place of the fallen com- rades. The Irish Communist Party's policy is the most well-developed programme of political treachery.

Coalition The recent edition of its area journal, "Unity, northern contains the strategy for 1972 in an article written by one James Stewart. Stewart charts the drift towards coalition between the ruling class of the N and S, and the gradual acceptance by the British government that the Unionist Party has lost its grip of the situation. If the capitalists are moving

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es down Grafton Street. tical 'solution in the interests of for he so should unity, argues, the workers. Hence he writes: the working people of this island.' 'Sectarian divisions among the One pause here and working class at this stage serve understand what the Stalinists bargaining only to weaken our are proposing. position as a class in the political tiations for new when in actual fact Peddling tions, the entire progressive movement be should in a strong position. They say that the Tory govern- which has filled After all internees are released ment Ulster and internment is ended- with 15,000 troops, killed over which the 100 and children, Talks can begin at women men. interned ten that number representatives of all the poli- times tical parties in the N, the going to sit down and plus award organizations' people's organizations, can sit progressive the British and Irish a solution 'in the interests of the with working people of this island'.

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Two backers for Numeiry New Stage in Friendly Relation Workers Press, Monday January Between China and the Sudan wed left-wingers who are no IT HAS not taken Moscow Vormery andereround against th long to follow Peking with Moscow Radio, this falls 1 the Sudan's a tribute to falls in reactionary military dictator- ith the entiting a ship and an attack on the various the Sudanese society against one left-wingers, murdered, jailed by the nuntea ana regime. Chinese Chou En-lai According to the radio broad sent ist mier. mom glorian nependence Sudan's position... Deaths Crushing specifically message trying to undermine theo attacked 'subversives a ter wing once goes 8 officers Abdel Mahgoub general secretary of the Communist Party Needing Abdel Many of Sudan, murdered by Numeiry last July.

He laid particular stress on th • Se Nation Da cast ons MoS- of its desire to break the back of *Wich Sohea Union aid ation of the difficulties unions and imprison all arly in the villa society, particu- It can only refer to the out- pression of the CP. John Spencer looks at Congratulatory The Stalinist Crisis Party. Mao with Numeiry-picture and caption trom "China Pictorial No I0, 19/0 !!...t. un are had advocating skiin After is that he was pree BULIVIAs military Junta headed by Col Hugo Banzer sor and the since he seized power Tast fascist sorange? is deeply divided August - and opposition in the coun white try is growing. at findara largely in Threat are drawn from the big Ministe lanuowners. Enemy helped organize sidered him a threat to his por the sword enery of Pazestme sonal power. He Both colonels finht-wirepresenocialis exrange. rop recent was resee nterhir, Seich quite oI thi acquired a December 1970: Food riots in Gdansk.

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Aberdeen—a new Riviera? ABERDEEN Corporation's direc- Nicholl. tor of publicity, Jack has been trying to whip up a bit of team spirit-just in case the thought of a million on the dole this New Year might be leading anyone to think that the post- war boom has come to an end.

'We must all of us,' he urges Aberdeen's business community in the most recent edition of the "Chamber Commerce local of Journal' 'sell our city and assure it of a confident march into the eighties on the backs of three winning horses-oil, tourists and conferences.' This will come as a shock to the city's a large section of workers who are employed in fishing, fish-processing, paper- making, engineering and ship- building. Aberdeen's unemploy- been ment rate has rising steadily, but-partly because it is distorted by a high level of emigration it is, at under 4 per cent, low by Scottish standards.

But the threat of world reces- particularly on the ship- sion, building and machine tool Common industries, and of Market entry most specifically on fishing and paper-making, lurks menacingly over almost every major section of industry in the area. Against this the local press- notorious for its parochialism * and civic patriotism, and backed Labourites up by the and • Stalinists in the labour move- has been propagating • ment optimistic forecasts of the em- ployment guaranteed by North F Sea oil exploitation. The principal of the local uni- versity chipped recently in to suggest that university expansion would mean thousands of extra jobs in the construction indus- tries, over and above those that *oil bonanza' is supposed to the be going to provide.. The realities of the world crisis of of capitalism, or even " the Tory government's education • policies. enter into these never calculations of course. But lest relying on the oil alone for Aberdeen's promised • prosperity should seem to over- credulity, PR tax our man Nicholl is offering us a 'tourist bonanza' as well. Aberdeen, with its granite tenements, its high percentage of sub-standard housing, its cold east winds, its uncanny quantity of churches, is become between to a cross Kuwait and Las Vegas. We can hardly wait! Satchmo's secret fan 'IN HALF an hour, how can you do justice to Beethoven and Bach, Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong?' asked guest disc jockey on Radio Four Scotland's 'Autogram' programme last week.

But he did his best, though, only Armstrong of the afore- mentioned four featured in his of jazz, selection opera and songs by Sarah Vaughan. One of his favourites was l belong to Glasgow' sung by that representative of la genuine con- ; temporary Scottish folk culture' ș Will Fyfe, and accompanied by sa quaint characterization of a Glasgow working man, drunk of 100* for appealing under- course, *standing to the nobs who can afford their pleasures to take more privately. Who was this cultivated man b of the people, chosen to regale us with the merest taste of his wide-ranging musical interests?

'Already a star of the jimmy Show, Young It's Your Line' and heaven knows what else, it was - you've guessed it — none Bother than *the newly appointed Rector of Glasgow University', Jimmy Reid. Music, he explained. is very important to him. It helps him to unwind after a hard day. But the programme wasn't all relaxa- tion--there was a sting in the tail as Reid signed off: 'A happy and peaceful New Year to all of you and let's hope we're all in work in 1972: Biting stuff. And he got a fat fee from the BBC too.

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A striking miner leaves the last shift at Oakdale plt, S Wales.

RATIONALIZATION

is An investigation by John Spencer of the £300m Thorn one of Sir Jules Thorn's electrical empire which the now-occupied favourite words, as thous- Fisher-Bendix plant, Merseyside.

ands of workers have dis- covered to their cost over blackspot, jobless rates the past ten years. with chon stewards above the national telling them washing- machine still had Sir Jules has built up over that period a vast in- arkinson Cowan dustrial empire, following a making and policy merger of Its acquisition to enable the straightforward deal company to grow rapidly. carmer sense Most money heavilv. and there Parkinson's products •dovetal Thorn Since documentary evidence to show alar neat y with own. trical has swallowed more scope therc plenty companies board was planning rationalization. (Our em- achieve aim Within months, the equal factory terms fascist Spabruary Kirkby, W1Th manutacturers end Or Parkinson receiving A merica. an e management handed tried allay Europe. management tne new The inevitable senne mergers has mact. these been and cartina. fantagr closures. aimed at integrating the merged firms with the rest of the + he had After 2596, over Radio Rentals told example, the board that substan av were exnected. trom annication of his industria popy. Radio Cor- When Reitich poration merged with

SIR

form jointly owned Holding: had similar multi-millionaire. one Co comprising George Britain. Cohen Sons Co and sub- will Of the sidiaries 8, Danks reduce production costs in the shares Alla (Glenpark) Than 7m stake. totals in the UK 'horn's emaoline mort meet competition and AT nresent these have The last four comnanies Policiec valles thir rentecent Electrical into made harm holding worth *35m suncidiaries Metal 20 one the British reproduced toD Industries a subsidiary companies, with em- below gives an indication 74 00 ""'horns). annual turn- ployees the company's push for more profit. Acquired: have also Toon's spectacular the 1967/1968 Acquired: Ralnh E. Harding In group ABR food machinery Co

TORTS.

f4.1m but British Lighting Industries Tyne and Wear made a mere. figures tes Metal Industries VearC nront totalled Electrical Co 671.3m-- AvAr Marshall & Taylor the total ten years before. KMT (Holdings) (Electrical Directors' Dav went almost Potters Electrical Repair December 1970: eriod. work on Gothic Electrical penury Genera joint Formed only marder intaracte with directors now take home the Corporation Internationa form sub. Staggering / (| each vear

TICA

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sidiary Thorn Bendix- _with "here are nine directors 50 per cent of the General Telennont holdings. Subsidiary. with

DOLE QUEUES

per cent of share o cent of chara owned hi 1968/1969 Acquired: cent whose shares Thorn his b conducts owned by Thorn- -therefore Wessex Wholesale Crapes activities ock from Thorn owns 624 per cent o Electricity Co skyscraper Thorn - General Telephon Greenpar reen (Engineers • Fraineerin London's St Martins Tane Co) chauffeur drives him to Merchants) work in a back. Rolls-Royce lift London Electrical 1971 Acquired: a special executive (Blackfriars) to his opulent Evershed & Vignoles from the White and Swales re the test of Kirkby, Lanes, Infarnational lamitam including suhsidiaries Westmorland's (Electrical) The Rooned Flastical Co L. G. Lathbur F. W. Sdiivaignoles France up occupation тастот' Cowan and sub Parkinson succeed 1969/1970: Goes not (notably Fisher- They the Fisher- work Bendix Kirkby's Merged metal Hose very industrial estate. The fandary with those town interests protection Engineers) George Cohen 600 group to notorious unemployment

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CIRCULATION

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REDUNDANCIES

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TORY BACKING

The Mersey men have no Theight rugsle is patch for proditment thei 20,000 laid off at Opel

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WINCES

'WE'VE got to bring ON DAY ONE of the miners' stoppage, IAN YEATS this government down —filing from the S Wales coalfield-talks to else we're beaten' or strikers. was the sharp reaction from the S Wales coal- no today is it. field T Friday The yesterday to men back. last refusing management today vicious Heath's no-surrender the 412 had already 100 cent behind Blaenserchan these rite will pledge. 'be what hap- tough men don't they are defeated. giv 'We'll see who's toughest', they wage they can shut Wales ving i back said haenserchan Lodge the piss coalfield chairman Ted Priddle, com- Priddle. the these Pendire menting on coalboard chief will gs down. miners down evervoody want every Ezra's

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hardline They're wages Derek to the hilt. this claim union to back us speech at the weekend. con t win they'll 'We've already got the sup- sacking 'If ing ne closing sackine. DOrT OI tne transoor! UnIons. y'll never men, shia the sacked It lS virtualy a general strike 'We work has d aerationalized George Hughes (40) who worked in the pit ains ate ana atter 'We're not just fighting for told me why they staged their gave better chance we're fighting means wort but nou for the right to live. are fighting one big boss in- 'EVERY nationalized industry with a pay claim takes on the government, Britannia Lodge secretary Gwylym Burton told me. 'That's what doing We're in we rt That's what the Post This workers ala. sUrIKe toe wtimate. 1s very. very the front going important determine all tuture rises in other industries. laughed when "Huervoody the dustmen na hell of of an elect. but they had Even paste the 'It's not just a question corporation millions d of wages. It's the whole of pounds. ment Tories' business of the I don't can eve. per-cent income limit', said talk of defeats. Maerdy face captain Ivor England. cripne the country.' 'It's terrible scandalous sixty eight per cent of th living on wages we get. 1,000 Britannia voted Some of the lads fami- with for a national strike. lies would be better off on "The Industrial Relations social security. Act will work', said 'The Tories' 7 per cent has haven't got to be broken, and we're America or in i the Post Of 500,000 men in a cant Office workers had they it come e want IT men ou on strik nave a hell of a job to ge topple They'll get It's 1926 any men back mOTTOW TrOL and there's being a huge surtace this likes working down there ganized working class one And a lot ot miners and country that could their families Reg Jones going 'are

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Taff Merthyr Shiter They mair tee voisell tary where televisions tent for the strike despite per their the 0) mer voted even their 'But it's not fact that their will suffer. It'll be the it done on tale oke be able Lodge secretary Reg Jones (1) wl up be satis anything less thar we won't the he dimals 'maximum' Hot welcome less than the s will try and full do the safety amount of our claim. I don't In e WOrK think we'll have much trouble men' said Tones "It'll do them planned for gettine SUDDOrT Trom other good to get down the bit 1n- stead of sitting in the offices unions against the ories be.

cause if we're choppea up they dav. Zionist chief know they're red on the serike in. AVArUOne pected to le cluding canteen DEMONSTRATIONS will be staff- -pickets will be on duty today. held in London this week to be against the visit of Menachim core i in pole t Beigin. leader of the right- wing Zionist Herut Party.

their let so lucy put nondays ol On Monday night a dinner a carrol. Dul ILs no coc to Miner at the Royal Garden Hotel, Bryn Gibbons told South Kensington. will be me, "The ores have mace picketed and his public meet- ver cear inevre coina to all this bi belle miners us but i tell von now ing at Westminster Hall on Tuesday will also be attended work crawiina hack Gwylym Burton three weeks is rubbish by demonstrators.

CONROY

CASE:

WHEN

Miss Conroy's solicitor made inquiries about how bail much spires Alex Wise ex describes her release.

would be needed to secure her release, he was un- officially told that it would Miss Conroy. He was brought They also knew of his be a staggering £50,000. London (in handcums arrest demonstration the class Greek ball of e200 in her on ted the HrST comnartment against (He was junta Montreal. in her ot a KHA let) and interrogater by Commander Bond, the so- at the Montreal cognizance four sureties called Commander hearing.) totalling €20,000. Special Branch. Miss Conroy and Mr Sirros The sureties were acquired by Miss Conroy's parents with Corma the help also of students at

DROPPED

the polytechnic variously describe two-and-a-half He was charged with steal- Dast months

SURRENDER

ing his driving licence. 'a nightmare or as heing 'quite surreal Miss Conroy is still waiting quently the return the two was Conditions of bail were that cases books and papers she the to rei report once a day ater croosec removed from her flat. with the Hill police le was also chargec render station sheut overstaving passport hail and held tor three weeks ner

'DEPLORABLE'

undertaking Rajutan enve nOt Sirros says that during his attend nolitical meetings demonstrations. She feels that they are still Her taken under constan surveillance was away. so she had means of trans. Eventually he was fined £50 police. nout. And f360 she had with. the immigration offence counsel Lord sought drown from t bade the and the stop magistrate mace maoistrates before her aact-Nauemher de- recommendation TOt police "harassment'. 23- -was kept by the police portation. reticed for five weeks. that cauc within At the heatino Citoro said hours of heino arrested it was a deplorable case of The father of Miss Conroy's his babv son was having interrogators were asking him political persecution'. Michael Siros Greek -born about a student sit-in which On the face of it, there's Michael arrested joined at Magill University, ample evidence substanti- Glasgow days Canada, three years ago. Gifford's remark ate stead of hundreds of private 'We've 100 tons in the got vard and 400 men. ones. we've got "The National Coal Board There's 300 another men • the say they only made £500,000 at Glyntillery. They over profit last but that was might try to get a private year old after paying the coal but coal contractor move I wouldn't like to be the man owners. in the cab "They ought to be down the pits having go. "The Tories will try to do From YORKSHIRE Phillip They'll anything to break us. Wade reports: Safety men of go to all the dirty tricks. But all kinds will be pulled out of can stick 14 pits under the Doncaster we it out like fathers stuck it our out panel. think it will be a long struggle.

The decision was confirmed 'It's 1920s now. yesterday by mass meeting None will starve. If uS Brodsworth, the largest pit at they to stop Social Security in the area. money they'll have to put the A minority wanted to boards up at the shops. further take and refuse to 'Carr says they may use the Industrial Relations Act but action even if a pit caught fire. I don't think it will work. They haven't got enough jails The militant mood in Don- to hold us. caster was reflected in 'And if they decision by winders try moving seperate coal stocks they'll need to join the strike. Pickets will police escort all the way.

be out at all 14 pits today.

leg Jones (I) with miner Bryn Glbbons at Merthyr's Taff colliery.

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