SocialistAction 1983–88

The paper of the Socialist League, formerly the International Marxist Group, 1983–88

Scargill battles for Labour victory

Socialist Action No. 13, 10 June 1983 · p. 14 of the scan · 366 words

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results of the tribunal you will not be employed by this company'.

The pickets have suffered harassment and intimidation from manage ment and the police and need firm solidarity: mass rally demonstration has been called to support them on 18 June assemble 3pm, Coal Hill Lane, rarsley, Pudsey, West Yorkshire. • Money and messages to: AVYS support committee, Dirkhill Street, Bradford 7. MANAGEMENT AT Greenings in Warrington threaten to sack the 400 shop floor workers they do: not return to work by 6 June.

The workers are in MINERS' president Arthur Scargill roused audiences throughout the country with his message for a In meetings in Shipley, Sheffield the Rother valley in Yorkshire and in Kent and London, Scargill hammered the message.

'It wasn't the winter of discontent that stopped Labour last time. Labour trying to manage capitalism better than the lories.

•We can talk as much we want about socialism, but at the end of the day we have to win a lahour government on y accountable to the people for all its policies'.

the Dinnington miners' hall in the Rother valley, Scargill spelt this out.

'With the appointment of lan McGregor as tional coal board chairman the Tories really took the gloves off. Only by electing a Labour government can we bring the butchery of our industry to an end without having to resort to direct action.

I refuse to be bullied into submission by obviously massive coal stocks. I ask the govern•ment do those stocks mean that our nation has no need of coal?

'On the contrary. Those stocks symbolise a dying wasteful economy that ignores the needs of pensioners, the unemployed and low paid. of schools, hospitals countless institutions fuel badly needed'.

His plan of fighting policies extended to other At a Labour Party rally in Kent he challenged efforts to Scargill's speech to a Trade Union for a Labour Vicmeeting left no doubts of his total opposition to incomes policy and 'unequivocal commitment to unilateral disarmament'.

What a contrast to the election antics of electricians' union leader Frank Chap ple unaffectionately known to his members as Franco Cappelo with his personal backing for John Grant the SDP candidate for Islington.

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