Workers Press no. 663

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INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER

NUMBCH OOd THE DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE Power unions Police terror in retreat Miners' in Rhodesia ARMED POLICE with tracker dogs are patrol- pickets ling the streets of the Rhodesian asbestos-mining Dashed town Shabani heart. African worker and wounding nine others.

hopes miners went

BY TOM KEMP

strike in the town - 200 miles from 'tests' salisbury, the at UCS capital - after 12 of their number had been sacked. 101KA The

BY STEPHEN JOHNS

the col with headquarters AFTER HEARING details ase deal bet Early-morning pickets blocking the removal of coal from Cardiff docks yesterday from boilermakers' leader govern. Dan McGarvey about his surelecon Labour may the country aunt to Houston. alexas Rhodern or rument blame walk out Secretary for Industry John Davies said yesterday think it is too early to say over rents at this stage that they can save Clydebank' Harassing

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BY MICHAEL BANDA

local councils throughout reuse to are being AS AN of picketing miners began to army raise • chares invade S England, the first positive gesture of April 1 orted its aims solidarity from coal handling unionists in the ships are corporation at Breaksea a meetings an tribat governments dires Trust are s supply industry Fulham. made at power was picket lines but mhing the Not one of 200 Immediately after the applications first NUM pickets arrived ot ters spokesman for the £1,250 Fund • de, before, hauliers said: "We will not move any coal from this rises to Ebl8.JU station while the strike is cratic.

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good post. Picketing is ty makes our total now rest on minday £618.90. It looks like being lydebanin was taking, for Clydebank at coal aching pre major Arkwright record P which had lasted tor calu Impanese. january.

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OFFIn after wares rene the kent miners at rulnam power station yesterday ABOUT 250 Cardiff dockers Trades councils engineers Work Transpod Gene ded is are contine ent belong said afterwards, "There Cwm and Fifaldau colliery and From onse to the fund ent intimidate r Ala Roat dock said they ha back jobs marches can see might i Crumbling a not settled before February ting the dockers' support sirle and less betweer instructions engineers ver monday, have Fund wages us to tell them what to committee is crumbling. • ot Leeds coal the strike ends. Clydebank resider Workers Press anuary Appeal Fund, 186a Clapham High Street, London, SW4 7UG striker the vote pickets from celeria stilack

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• SATURDAY JANUARY 15, 1972 • NUMBER 663

INCORPORATING THE MENSLETTER

THE DAILY ORGAN OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE SOCIALIST LABOUR LEAGUE Power unions Police terror in retreat Miners' in Rhodesia ARMED POLICE with tracker dogs are patrol- pickets Dashed ling the streets or tne knodesian asbestos-mining town of Shabani shooting dead one after African worker and wounding nine others.

hopes The miners went

BY OKAY

strike in the town - z0l miles from Salisbury, the • Bonai peste at UCS capital - atter 1z ot their blanket number had been sacked.

BY STÉPHEN JOHNS

arous paris of ine country various in Manchester: reacted AFTER HEARING details the deal Early-mornina pickets blocking the removal of coal from Cardiff docks yesterda from boilermakers' leader McGarvey about his Labour may Dan tinued white-minority rule the country A statement put out by the jaunt to Houston, lexas, Secretary for Industry John walk out Davies sala yesterday nais thin lat and orde think it is too early to say leterminea l over rents at this stage that they can Harassing save Clydebank! ALL 300 Labour-controlled

BY MICHAEL BANDA

verture impo yesterda + Winks The said Davies Jocal councils tarousnoul very the countrv are being urged McGaı o Davies yesterday nornine to reruse to co-operate wit

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picketing miners began to army of the ory government's bans claimed an - regime ANG narasies raise council rents on com interested at and invade S England, the first positive gesture of April 1. Clydebank. His shout not be eight-point solidarity from coal handling unionists in the meetings in trib power supply industry made at and Fulham. was Lust dira. Tories Housin Immediately after the the mine every first NUM pickets arrived to the hall say £1,250 Fund fol devastatin sookesillan hauliers said: 'We will not ins for nearly a short-term basis'. Sonin Base in the coal from this move dily

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Workers Press, Saturday Januar. • . 1972 JACK GALE continues the history of class struggle in Ireland. 'A HOME Rule Bill for Ireland is under consideration ..

the British Conservatives, led by that Black Hundred. ...

Carson, have raised a frightful howl against Irish autonomy.

and has organized ... Carson has threatened rebellion, armed Black Hundred gangs for this purpose. ... Of course, if the Liberals appealed to the people of Britain, to the proletariat, Carson's Black Hundred gangs would melt away immediatelv and disappear. But ... the Liberals in Britain are also lackeys of the money bags, capable only of cringing to the Carsons.'—Lenin: "The British Liberals in Ireland', March 1914.

WELL

Orange known Order toast runs: 'To the glorious, piõus and King immortal memory of William the Third, who saved us from rogues and roguery, slaves and slavery, knaves and knavery, and popes popery, from brass money and wooden shoes; and whoever denies this be slammed, toast may crammed and jammed into the muzzle of the great gun of fired Athlone, and the gun into the pope's belly, and the pope into the devil's belly, and the devil hell, and the

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door locked and the key in an Orangeman's pocket." the Protest- This story, that Protestant ant forces saved the Catholics, from the and poor Protestant that the ruling class the friend of the Protestant working class, is a load of lies from beginning to end. landlords and Protestant joined enthu- bosses have always Catholic siastically with exploit- ers against workers and peasants of all religions. the Ulster originated during I, of when •the reign lames English government settled Ire- Scot- land with planters from John Redmond, Irish nationalist leade land and England for which pur- pose they confiscated million Protestant and acres. magistrate But it was a Puritan parlia- Thomas Knox of Dungannon ment which raised and financed wrote: 'As for the Orangemen, an army for the Catholic Charles difficult rather card have I to subdue the Irish- thurter 2.5 milion they be play; must not million entirely discountenanced- tion that -on the acres be confiscated. certain must in And the conquest of 1688 by degree uphold them, for with all of Orange their licentiousness, on them William was in we sense a religious crusade against must rely for the preservation of William catholicism. was lives and properties, should our adventurer military whose inva- critical times of Ireland was financed by the magistrate's sion name- And League Augsburg. The sake, a military commander Gen- the League of Ausburg. Knox, eral reported to his superiors Finance to in. I nave arranger between the The leaders of this league crease animosity were both Protestant and Catho- Orangemen and the United Irish Upon that animosity depends the lic. They included the Emperor the King of Spain, safety of the counties of of Germany, centre North. Were the William of Orange and the the Orange- men disarmed or put down, or Pillam's victory at the Battle they coalesced with the were whole of Ulster of the Boyne was financed in party, the donations would be as bad as Antrim and by from the part Down." And the first religious papacy. It was this which transformed event eDent Bodiet was a Deum conducted the Orange Order from its ple.

papal in bian Rome. a government origins into agency. By 1797 the head of the As always, Jesus came a very -Gen- poor second to material greed, English forces in Ireland- eral Lake-was himself far the pope Wan

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Order and ber of the Orange cerned. In fact, the Orange Order it- reviewed parades as the landed and self, when was founded in Lovemament 1793, was originally an organiza- assiduously established new tion of the poor, concerned to lodges. smallholdings. The The revolutionary side always protect their big landlords hesitated for some sought to overcome religious dif- ferences. Wolfe Tone before deciding to take it curve time, recruit both Catholics Pro- and they were pushedi to and over, Irish- this decision only fear testants into the United men; Engels notes in one of his Tone's 'United Irishmen' Wolfe letters that its early days and the militant peasant organi- in the Fenian banner "The Defenders'. (1865-1867), zation, evidence was green and orange to of the is ample nATe prominent this. bolize the brotherhood the substantiate 2. See Liam de Paor • Divided Bryant. "The Age of 1. A. Elegance'. Ulster'. The delty paper thal lands the fight against the Tories. 17.12 for 12 months (312 lasues) C8.56 for 6 montha (156 Issues) {4.29 for 3 months (78 issues) If you want to take Workers Press twice a week 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 Preed 186a Claphem High St., London. SW4. ----- - --- I would like to take out a subscription to Workers Press.

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IRELAND: BACKGROUND

The rise of the Orangemen and hip in the United gugdo, an hen Tones Weakness now-1913-Asquith contemptuously Cabinet i informed all ster' simply 55 63-91) I careers, Stewart's Crisis neche, february 29, giebk- Wilhelm His- 1. Sory of Partion, p. s8.

9. Liam de Paor op. cit. p. 67.

7. fister Crisis P. wart, "The 10. See Stewart op. cit. p. 62.

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'that Black Hundred'. Above: Carson, Below: Carson reviews members of the Ulster Volunteer Force. law on September 18, 1914 — a Bill to accompanied by sus- pend its operation until the end of the war with Germany which had begun month earlier! During the war Carson's UVF fought with the British as Ulster regiment. separate The Irish nationalist leader, Redmond, for supremacy in the vying offered 'patriotism' irishes, olonteers, his the Irish the same terms. His troops were accepted and his terms rejected.

(The British was government anxious for Irish troops.

In the South they campaigned for defend 'gallant, volunteere little' Catholic Belgium.) By the end of the war, Red- mond dead move- and his had lost its influence ment in Ireland, largely because of its for the Redmond support war. stood the of Grat- in tradition O'Connell and Parnell as ton, of the representative Catholic midâle seeking class to estab- lish for itself within position the colonial system. The Easter Rising of 1916 (see article) had been brutally crushed, and the emerging Sinn Fein nationalist but just was afraid of the unions and the workers, the bosses and the as British government. Since did need the he not Lloyd Irish vote, why did return after it was all over!

George-one of the least prin- This, of course, just encou- cipled beathe unpicacipled breed All over the raged the others. Liberal politicians proceed British officers refused army with Home Rule? The biggest serve. single mutiny For two reasons. At one stage the Curragh County was at in the war was going badly for Kildare where no fewer than 58 Britain and so the government officers, of the 3rd Cavalry committed itself to Home Rule Brigade, including its com- in return for conscription in Ire- mander, Brigadier-General Hubert And the Easter land. secondly, Gough, declared that they would Rising of 1916, the move against Carson. following not Dublin strike of 1913 great The Liberal government can- the the added to unrest in celled the operation. British British army and in More than that- -not only was industry- -raised the of spectre taken against the no action the the Russian Revolution in Curragh rebels, but they each United Kingdom. This more undertaking was received written frightening even than the Ulster that they would be called not Unionists. upon again to act against any opposition to Home Rule. Carson was pressurized, against Need. his wishes, the exclu- to accept less say, war during Great to the sion of the six northern coun- ('Patriotic') of 1914-1918, ties, nionism and with that concession soldier who refused any private Lloyd George intro- carry out the orders of such to Home duced Rule Bill in officers was immediately shot. February 1920. Indeed, such was the govern- Carson ment's 'patriotism' that

CONTINUED MONDAY

-with the of open connivance The next article will deal the British Tories -was able to Germany with the Irish working class import arms from right When up to the eve of the war.

in the Dublin strike of 1913 soldiers and police were immedi nationalist tried and the Easter Rising of ately moved in against them. 1916. Finally, Home Rule became

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A NEW FOCUS

report by Reuters reporter A QUARTER of a century Charles Lambelin ago, almost to the day, the HAVANA, Cuba — Cuba's coal industry was vested in Castroite leaders striving public ownership under the to increase production and Labour government's 1946 productivity have proclaimed Nationalization Act. "The Year 1972 of the It was Keir Hardie who was Socialist Emulation'. the first to introduce a Mines Every year since the revolution Nationalization 1893. Bill in -which had its 13th anniversary Other unsuccessful attempts on January 2-the Cubans have 1907 1913, were made in the year which given a name to 1919, 1923, 1924, 1925 and is used on every official act and 1937. document. Last year was the Year of Pro- When the Labour govern- 1970 the Year of the ment under Attlee was swept Ten Million (tons of sugar).

1969 back to power with a massive the Year Decisive Effort,. ot the in 1945, and 1968 the Year of the Heroic majority mining became the third of the Guerrilla. nationalized, An official announcement pro- industries to be claiming the for 1972 said closely following the Bank of Title the name was chosen to under- England and civil aviation.

line the fundamental role that Of course, enormous com- emulation must have in econo- mic, political, social and cultural tasks. Brothers £16m received The term emulation, as used in for compensation mines in socialist describes valued at f12.6m. countries, the which all system under firm distributed fllm The citizens are expected match best achieved to shareholders and invested industry and other forms of pub- the rest in high-profit indust- lic activity. ries including oil refining.

Observers here noted that the Cory one of the authorities were trying to develop Bros was biggest coal merchants in the in Cuba a collective conscience a profit spurred on by example to country, making on replace the drive for individual every ton they handled. The enrichment of capitalist societies.

deputy chairman later joined They have organized a complex the coal board. of competition with the Some 25 years later the old best workers being proclaimed "millionaires' heroes' surplus "labour owners exact and with flags and value from miners' backs in diplomas. interest For ex- payments. The year of Socialist Emula- ample, 1970/71, the

NCB

in tion is carrying on the CAPn paid out £36.4m in interest to work of 1971 which year was a the old owners and the govern- of reorganization and consolida- tion in Cuba. ment. In its efforts to increase pro- The trading profit for that ductivity year of £36:4m fell to £500,000 the authorities code the carrot and the as a result. A new anti-vagrancy law Nevertheless :T. January. adopted last year made it com- 1947, was an historic day for pulsory for all men to work and thẻ miners.' and. laid down punishment for those ther , entire working 'class. 'A. gain! was who did not and for workers The hated owners. had who were absent from their jobs made. without justification. disposseysed by" legisla- been Labour norms were also estab- tion. A step forward had been lished in many centres. taken. These resulted in measured Shinwell, But Emmanuel 100,000 men, formerly described Lord Shinwell, whỏ as now for the labour force. 'workshy', becoming available Minister of Fuel, guided the The carrot was incentives given legislation through parliament, to the best workers in the form was to ensure that the control of permits to buy a few con- of the mines was not to be in sumer goods, including refrigera- the hands of the workers in television tors, sets, transistor the industry. radios, watches and steam cook- In 1893" and long before, ers. the miners had sought control At the same time prices of Keir Hardie's consumer commodities were of the industry. increased and charges Bill, reintroduced three were times made for facilities including in the 1920s, provided for workers' canteens and working 50 per cent share in control clothes-previously provided free by miners. of charge. But throughout the 1930s, With few goods to buy and more consumer men like Herbert Morrison had prices increas- swung the Labour Party round ing, working has become not only revolutionary duty and to support for what he called an obligation by law, but an econo- the 'efficiency concept' of mic necéssity. embodied nationalization, in This policy seems to have had public corporation of the positive results on industrial pro- best business brains that we duction during the past year with Morrison's secure' (from that can many centres reporting speech introducing the Bill in their yearly plans were fulfilled for the first time in three years.

the Commons). However, the same cannot After asking for NUM nom- agriculture. said for The 1971 inations for Labour directors harvest, i tobacco affected by divisional national and severe drought, was very low Shinwell reiected levels. the and this year's sugar harvest is list and the general secretary éxpected to be mediocre.

NUM,

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12.10 Weather. NATIONALIZATION of the coal industry a quarter of a century ago was a great step forward for the entire working class movement. ! Yet today control of the industry still remains out of the hands of the workers.

Instead, the National Coal Board, the governing body, has become an instrument for Tory attacks on wages Staff reporter PHILIP and conditions in the mines.

WADE compiles this biography of the management of the NCB at Hobart House. William Vincent Sheppard, George Clifford Shephard, Derek Ezra, 52 Salary: £20,000 62. Salary: £16,000 plus 56. Salary: between Chairman of NCB and expenses. Deputy £10,000-£15,000. Associated Heat Chairman NCB. Industrial relations expert Services Ltd Held various nositions in and ex-NUM executive Director of British Fuel Bolsover Company's pits. member. Co. and J. H. Sankey & David Morris Clement, 61.

Normon con Salary: £10,000-£15,000. Salary £10,000-£15,000. Salary: £10,000-€15,000. NCB member for science An accountant with big Previous manager o Held positions in the steel business experience, Bestwood Colliery, Notts.

giant Richard Thomas and including some at

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Baldwins. the livelihood of nearly By the t Lord Rohend the and the time •and inined appointed deputy-chairman 200 006 minere? to replace Sir James Chairman since Tuly 1971 is 1967. The question then 1960. Derek Salary: €20,000, increase of 33 per any miners cent in 2 an natiolid board months. he did, the obvious He is one of the new breed choice for Today the picture is no dif- the Chairman's 10h of high-nowered ferent, mangemeni uncounted y worse over. mon who hone wanted thail Ine full-time and three through the coal Every top position has nattime hased mamhare are board. Ezra joined the NCB in rewards made up of top management 1947, straight Ezra's is no army salary. exception men and directors big with the rank of lieutenant. He is chairman OT Associated colone. Heat servicec andi To all intents and purposes 20 veare he Fuel director tho Rritich this not capit- group Company and J. Sankey mines in the spirit and sates Finally ne marketing Son sales. by the NCB and 18m evidenced their 1960 the ruthless clocured nitc owned by •trade throwing thousands of miners appointed director-general jointly with hoard in the out of work. marketing handling distributior success Who are these men who pre- Hrom there come solid fuel 1965 side over the nation's mines even quicker. A sure sign that Ezra had

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John Brass, 63 Salary £10,000-£15,000 Held managerial posts at Grimethorpe, Wharncliffe Silkstone Colliery, Manchester Collieries and the Stanton Ironworks. Jack Wellings, 54. An NCB part-timer on salary of £1,000. Former Chairman and managing director of the George Cohen 600 Group. arrived and was accepted by the leading elements of British capitalism was his recent appointment as chairman . of the Europe steering committee of the Confederation of British Industry (CBI). The former head of the CBI was John Davies, now Heath's right- hand man in the Tory Cabinet.

The deputy chairman of the coal board is William Vincent Sheppard (62). He succeeded Ezra in July 1971.

Salary: £16,000 plus expen- ses, 25 per cent up since April 1970. In this man you see the spectre of the old coal owners still haunting miners. For 16 between the years a had wars he held various positions

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MIDLANDS: 11.00 Family worship. 12.05 London. 12.55 House. 1.40 Floroscope. and garden. 1.45 Yesterdays. 2.15 Star soccer Partner'. 3.15 Film: "The Secret 4.45 Golden shot. 5.35 Flaxton boys. 6.05 London. 7.55 Film: "To Hell and Back'. 9.48 Popeye. 10.00 London. SCOTTISH: 12.05 London. 12.55 1.25 in the house and garden. .25 Yesterdays. 1.55 Fair winds skatin London. 6.15 to Tahiti. 2.50| 1.15 Film: "Hello London'. 4.45 No easy answer. 7.00 London. 7.55 Film: "How Steal Million'. to 10.00 London. 12.10 Late call.

YORKSHIRE: 11.00 London. 12.55 House and i.ssarden. 1.25 Farming Calendar Sunday. outlook 2.15 Soccer. Film: "The Lavender 7.25 "The don. Film: Flight Phoenix'. 10.00 London. 12.05 the Weather gress. The prisoner. 3.35 Fiim: "The St.1s London!

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House and garden. 1.35 Farm anc 2010 Weneer. 12.05 Faith for life.

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in the Bolsover Company's pits. A mining engineer by train- ing, Sheppard joined the coal board soon after nationaliza- tion. He undoubtedly took charge of introducing the new machinery into the pits and running down the work force.

He joined the board in 1967.

For the other six full-time members of the board it is not possible to obtain precise salary figures — such is the degree public control! Apparently they are fixed by negotiation. What we do know is that their salaries range from £10,000 to £15,000 which is certainly above the bread- line. The key man in charge of industrial relations is a rene- union gade from the trade movement, Mr George Clifford Shephard (56). He was a mem- ber of the national executive of the NUM for eight years, representing the staff side.

A trained accountant and management expert, Shephard left the NUM and joined the coal board full-time on Jan- uary 1, 1969. At a recent press confer- ence he said that the refusal of the NUM to ballot the final offer meant that miners were unfairly tested on their loyalty to the leadership. The board member for science, Mr Leslie Grainger (54); came straight from the technical division steel Richard giant, Thomas and Baldwins. He joined the coal board in 1966 and was re- appointed for a further five years from March 1971. Another man who managed private mines, for the hated owners in the 1930s is Mr John Brass (63). He held posts at . Grimethorpe, Wharncliffe Silkstone Colliery, Manchester Collieries and the Stanton Ironworks. Working his way up through various positions as area Brass finally manager, was appointed to the board on July 5, 1971. with considerable A man business interests is Mr Wil- fred Miron, CBE, TD, JP. He is 59 and a qualified solicitor who worked with Shipley Col- lieries between the wars.

Demobilized with the rank of lieutenant-colonel, Miron joined the coal board in 1946 as legal adviser in the East Midlands. In July 1971 he was appointed to the board as a full-time member. Miron is chairman of the Midlands Brick Company and Whittlesea Central Brick Co Ltd and trustee of the Not- tingham Trustee Savings Bank.

Norman Siddall (54) stayed after nationalization on at Bestwood Colliery, Notts, where he had been manager before and during the war.

Having done his work for the old owners he obviously found it easy to carry on with industry. the publicly-owned Siddall became director-general of production in 1967 and joined the national board in 1971. The last member of the national board full-time is Mr David Morris Clement (61), an who has accountant many years of experience with big business, including ICI. Clement also joined soon after nationalization. His patience was rewarded with an appointment to the board on January 1, 1969. He got the CBE in June 1971. There are three part-time members, all on £1,000 a year.

A former chairman and man- aging director of the massive George Cohen 600 Group, Mr Jack Wellings (54), got his part-time position in July last year. Another appointee from the trade union movement is Mr Jack Peel. He is general secre- tary of the National Union of Dyers, Bleachers and Textile Workers. (His union has agreed to register under the Industrial Relations Act).

Peel joined the board in January 1969. Finally, there is the eminent from the best representative in British management, Mr Henry Marsh (58). He is director-general of the British Institute of Personnel Man- agement, not known for its sympathy to the working class.

Marsh was also appointed in January 1969. It is estimated that this tiny group of managers, techno- crats, accountants, business- men and trade union bureau- than crats take no less £100,000 in coal board wages each year. Saturday January 15, 1972

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Scoop CRISIS in the editor's office of one of our great national news- papers. editor Reporter approaches with article he's just written.

Un reading it editor says: 'But I've just read this in the Work- ers Press. We're not following up articles in the Workers Press.

'We've got to go out and get our own stories.' The Parkhurst brigade THERE'S a shortage of screws in the internment in camps Ulster. So where do r." think the Home Office went ir the men of the right stamina and calibre?

To Parkhurst Prison on the Isle of Wight. Parkhurst is notorious in the penal system for the toughness of the screws. They are quick to use their riot sticks-remember the way they put down the so-called riot in the prison in November 1969?

Several men were carted off to hospital with serious injuries.

Educating Digby DIGBY JACKS, Communist Party member and president National Union of of Students, commented on the December 8 student pro- tests against government pro- posals for the financing of student unions: 'December 8 was an unqualified success. We have demonstrated to the govern- ment not just by words, logic and memoranda but by our actions that Britain's students want none of the proposals that their consultative docu- ment contains.' Jacks was speaking at the NÚS universities' conference last week in Southampton. A more sober note was struck deputy there, however, by president, John Randall. 'We must overcome the apathy that at present exists within universities', Kandall said, an apatey veg- ing on conservatism, which was displayed at its most frightening in the poor response to the December 8 day of action when propor- tionately more students from the technical and colleges polytechnics took to the streets than did university students.' On continuing the cam- paign against the Tory gov- ernment, Jacks commented: "The first phase of the campaign is over. The time has come to reconsider our policy and strategy. It is now clear that while the NUS position remains the same, the government might be prepared to drop the consultative parts of document.' opening words, In his Randall said: 'In the months ahead we face a period of unparalleled difficulty. ... The reality of our situation is that we are involved not just in a fight over union autonomy but in a protracted struggle against virtually every manifestation of this government's educa- tional policy! And he concluded: 'If we do not fight on the issue of James [the government's forthcoming report on teacher training] we will have proved that a registrar would only be unnecessary in the gov- ernment's own terms - all they would have to do would be to issue a new consultative document every autumn to prevent the student body from concerning itself witt any other issue. A bit more of this point and counterpoint and even the sleepiest listeners would bezin to see that someone was out of line. Diggers, old chap, Tohnny's tryins YOu mething

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Yorkshire miners march with a message. Their leaders are le: A: I AM absolutely in favour ARTHUR SCARGILL has delegate of mass meetings, though not been pit at necessarily at each pit. Woolley, near Barsley, would prefer mass meetings for the past eight year. of allocan cinema panel pan at a local cinema. chap For the last two years he town has offered us his bingo has been a member of the Yorkshire hall. I'll be area executive of the Mine- and say weekly National Union of the keep lads in- workers. about the politics of Here Workers formed he taiks to Press staff reporter Philip the issue. Wade. WHAT SORT of solid- would you like

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arity action not a taken by other to see danger that the leader- workers in support of the ship of the NUM will sell miners? out this claim as they did I'D LIKE to see the TUC and 1970 A: in the 1969 Tory do the same as the strikes? call all its and soveralal strike members out on and A: I THINK there should be Tory government. defeat the settlement unless it IS We have a heaven-sent oppor- made by the rank and file at This is tunity for doing that. The branch meetings. only the struggle against and credi- nOl way the democracy

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up the claim in the first place -if anything its a bit under- A: THE attitude of the Tory Some and made it a political priced. people Issue WHAT would happen this union trying to duck 1n if the executive proceeded the issue. to a ballot? Q:

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