is forced to use' Aberdare and Merthyr joint lodges of the NUM.)
THE law is being used to turn Nottingham into a police state because they are out to destroy first the miners then the other trade unions. If they succeed it will be the end of the Labour Party and any hopes of socialism.
ed to establish a moderate area in Nottingham.
They have been given extra wages, bigger houses and the area has had massive investment. Notts it the teacher's pet in the classroom.
Now pressure from the Nottingham movement is needed to change the situation. We have got to get other people like nurses out on the Nottingham picket lines.
of help.
miners' children and holding back on council rents for strikers. Community better than in '72 and '74.
I could say — Twelve months won't be long, if we win in the end!
NOTTINGHAM THE barrage in the press about the police sealing off Nottinghamshire didn't stop thousands of pickets getting in.
At village, Welbeck, the police sealed 2OUD pickets emerged at the pithead, Since 1974 successive governments have workThe local councils in Wales have given us lots They are providing free school meals for support has been even Somebody asked me, will it be a long strike and worth colliery refused to cross the picket lines.
Increasingly there are signs the Nottingham pits lnal tne runng or lnel executive may be challengpicketing having an impact. The Coal Board's nouncements that all NotRAILWAY workers have been at the forefront in extending solidarity KNAPP, explained the importance of this solidarity at a London meeting last week.
& What we seeing around the miners is part of the scenario plannfor every public dustrv. We've already seer similar policies pursued in and the health ral. steel service. The miners are in but their Lilc fight is for us all.
We saw legislation first play with the NGA. It was disgrace disaster that TUC did not make a stand against unionist in their right mind WOWU lave retused the NGA their support.
BRISTOL SOUTH Wales miners ar rived Avonmouth Docks last week to prevent imported coal from South Africa being unloaded. The pickets were withdrawn pending discusminers. JIMMY General Secretary of the Railway Union, They will use the same legislation against the miners. mane think thes get away with it. The pledge l make from union to the miners is thai we will do all we can to support them if they face that situation.
Last September the TUC set out on the course of the 'new realism role for the TUC in the 80s But the GCHQ already began to pull the teeth of this new realism If anything good can be said to have come from the GCHQ disaster was sions with the dockers, but they were back on Monday.
Bristol West Labour Party has passed a resoluof support striking miners and is of Soing food aled shelteners South miners picketting the docks. showing that it's not new we need. but the good old realism • of 1972 That is the only language the government understands.
absolutely determined to defend the miners. If coal imports are brought in to break the strike the transport unions have made a firm commitment not to move it. If that's against the law, then SO be it They'll have to take on the NUR and take us to court.
Half of Nottingham's coal is stopping at Sheffield as the railworkers and niners make sure it goe 1o further. We've said ou members won t cross picket lines and picket lines are turning up in the THE Welsh National Bus Company have been forced to back down after refusing to accept NUM bookings for travel to omer coameds When they heard this. bus workers in the Rhondda brought services to a half. A mass meeting of drivers, local councillors and the NUM protested the decision, made under police pressure.
Dai Jones, TGWU
secretary on the Swansea buses, explained the allull.
'We want the leadership of the Labour Party and the TUC to get the movement mobilised Te To should mame of the miners. ine the day now for a day of It the law has to be broken for the working class to get through - then that's how it has to be.
Welsh nurses will also be joining the picket line at Port Talbot Steel, against the unloading of Gareth Jones strangest places. The Chair of the Rail Board has already declared those pickets illegal - he's now judge and jury. Members refusing to cross will be sent home. hat's proot oi the determination to crush the miners But our members will ignore these threats. If the Board sends anyone nome wt might be on ourselves to defend them.
I'm not one of the new realists, I'm an old realist The new realists say, stay the Labour OUT and all that. But we need the maximum unity of all wings of the labour movement against this government. Anything is the wrong road to follow.
imported coal. NUPE has put out this call and is asking members in Secretary.
of the national leadership.
easily as it did the NGA.
screaming into supporting the miners.
Brendan Dawson (Allerton Bywater colliery in Yorkshire picketting in Lancashire.)
Monday when Rovers. Incy back and then came another way.
picket them out.
still working to bring the whole area out after all.
work.' of the NUM, explained his view of the dispute to Manchester Socialist Action supporters. •The Coal Board have been provoking this situation for a long time, but think they have overstepped themselves.
But even the Tories able to take on the NUM, so that's why we are seeking the support of the whole abour move ment.
The Tory press makes a lot of tuss about a ballot We've had three ballots in years, and each one pro duced a only 10. fight. As far as Yorkshire is concerned we ve nad a mandate for a long time The time has passed for the niceties of a national ballot. We've gone beyond that point now there's no room for faint nears IOOKIg Il a way coalfields to call specia branch meetings to decide on support action.
Bernard Reagan, Stockport AUEW District IN every town, village and community we should I don't think the TUC can sell out the NUM as The TUC will have to be dragged kicking and 'WE were coming over the M62 in Lancashire las!
we were stopped by police Rang threatened us with all if we didn' return to Yorkshire with them as escort. We turned After the Lancashire ballot we came across to After a few days of effective picketting Agecroft was the only pit in Lancashire On Thursday the area NUM met and decided meeting at Agecroft decided to ignore the instruction, so there's still work to be done. But support has built up during the week and nowhere else will
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establish support committees for the miners. This is particularly important because of the betrayals