damental challenge. not just the NUM. It is ali those who resist Tory attacks on the working o the labour movement scability to grE fight.
the miners they will this out of the The at the The 1984 the NUM'. The general mandate.
The for the will. AS comes closer, cuts avoided They using legislation against the strongest the country.
Please forgive this unseemly intrusion.
I'm looking for the Labour Party The target of the government is 3s. It is aimed at crippling anise and to ow getting for The fact that the attack comes under common law, and the so-called rules of natural CHALLE should fool nobody. The reality is that the Tories have been preparing the ground for the growing use of the law courts industrial ever since they came to office. First Jim Prior, then Norman Tebbit, now Tom King, have been steadily tightening the legal shackles on the trade unions.
Unlike 1974, when the Tories set up special courts TOI merely provided enabing dealing time with they the acts, which employers to use the. civil courts.
But the intention was clear. steadily develop a climate in which the courts and the law become a central part of industrial disputes the state could be brought to the aid of employers faced with any trade unions which were prepared to fight.
The intention right /Ah! And did everyone agree that British troops should be withdrawn from face • the trade leadersh, as d with a contation of the Wilk And now the hope government the C the movethe NICHL. miners.
The greatest campaign policy of betrayal of the misnomer realism' on the NGA.
GCHQ.
the train drivers health to be to quote Any issue would open the assault more that The NUR, The to defend retain funds immeasurably would b more The movement. This is the days There plenty of ment who only too the Hammond, Lyons have doing throughout the with their proceed.
stop prepare for for the the NUM today has not delivered.
ple. • The council THE COMIC STRIP MINDLESS PACIFISM?!
we all know what soldiers do - and we're all against it - Right? % Let's debate violence..? act on the mandate given They must state clearly that if the NUM attacked, there will be an immediate general The TUC should be recalled to plan the campaign. • Those unions which have supported the NUM have a particularly grea responsibility. They mus provide lead.
TGWU. the NUR the NUS, and ASLEF shouk now call executive meetings declare their intention to take solidarity action with the NUM, if any attempt 1s made to seize its funds or imprison its leaders. They must that the TUC-act now.
• Key groups of workers in Fleet Street, the docks, transport, engineering must pledge immediațe industrial action if there is any legal attack on the NUM The decisive thing now is for commitments to action in support the NUM. Physical support as Arthur Scargill has demanded.
This is the best way to the courts to back off. The best way to pre vent the right win rying to stab the NUM i the back and set back the movencu decades. The best way secure a total victory for the miners. • to violence!
Oboy!
unity
Socialist Action
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THE THREATENED High Court attack on the NUM faces the British labour movement with a fun-
from the beginning was to ACTION of the
•CORNAG ¿Violence?!? 2 We are totally and Y unequivocally opposed