court cases.
'We took OVCT dil authority which was wreck. she explained. 'There are now more than 23,000 workers in employment wno wole nor oe otherwise. There are more Souvouses would otherwise be SHOU there.
'Over affiliated bodies support She told the audience. 'But the district partv is not allowcu to niccl allowed to organise.
'We have the support of all but one of the wards in une city does not allow people to join because it says it is full up! But while I am in court, next Wednesday the Labour Party will send in its enquiry.
'We need the parted. united response Kinnock should be defending Thatcher will us, as unere aerenaig une bankers when they go into 'WE GO INTO court this week with our hands tied behind our back,' said Felicity Dowling, secretary of the Liverpool District Labour Party and a councillor facing surcharge. She was speaking to a packed hall in Lambeth last Sunday on the eve of both councils' crisis.' Felicity Dowling pu the problem for Liverpool and Lambeth Councies in a nutshell. They are facing surcharge disqualification in a situation where the party leadership have made it more than clear that they will throw them to the wolves.
Deliberately publicly, done all in his power to Ila. assist the Tories the COULL Lose councillors prepared to stand up for the interests of the working people who elected them.
Speaking at the same meeting, NUM president Arthur Scargill pointed to the hypocrisy of Kinnock's DOSILIOU Liverpool Lambeth councils are being attacked.' he said. 'tor carrying out the policy on which they were elected in individual ballot. Where are the advocates of ballots now?
"The saddest thing is those who join the dawn chorous of jackels weel Street attack anyone, black white, woman or man, who dares to stand and fight against central government ed to work en masse in a Dare gloating press publicity. But this time it as miners voted ten to one to stav with the national UDM general sectetary Roy Lynk has been forced comment this drift back to the NUM, trying to brush aside than 1000'. Even if we accept his figures, that's not a bad start.
In Durham, six UDM members rejoined the NUM last month and the breakaway organisations' membership is being further eroded by members taking redundancy. policy:' 'It has been the policy of UHOI adopted under my predecessor, because WC saw the evil of witch-hunts and what they did to our movement in the '50s that if there's one thing we don't want, it is to turn a class. We should fight the witch-hunt UWIl class enemy'.
That same message came the 800-odd trade unionists and party members who marched on the Strand law courts last Tuesday morning for the beginning of the Lambeth trial.
These court actions are a stitch-up. Liverpool and