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paign. Nigel Bevan reports on the trip.
The really crucial meeting was held in Eindhoven. Over 200 people Ficial a the first ficial meeting to be held in that town in support of our strike.
Here, as at the meeting in Best, they sent a letter to the Dutch lUC and the transport union in Rotterdam calling them to stop all coal to Britain.
At every meeting we attended there was a decision taken to set up a permanent support committee and there was intense interest everywhere in the women's involvement in we surike On the Monday we went to bueme did sooke with trade unionists and a workers' union. FROM THE 7 to 14 October NIGEL BEVAN from Penrhiwceiber NUM and HAZEL JONES from support group toured returned to South Wales the Dutch TUC (FNV) had committed itself to launch an official solidarity camA miner from the pro. vince of Linberg also told us about the struggles defend the mines in Holland in 1965-75. There were 90,000 people working in the mines then, now there are no mines left. government pro mised them pension pay ments of £100 a week, when they closed the mines they only gave them f25 a week. Ine miners organis ed a mass campaign and eventually won a pension of £70 a week.
We had discussions with many different groups, for example with the union of the unemployed which is producing paper the unemployed.
Another was with the Turkish solidarity move ment in Holland (TIGD) This organisation exists to protect civil rights of im migrant workers in Holl MARTIN BEERIS, from the Dutch Labour Party (PVDA) helped to organise the tour. He describes its impact.
'The tour that Hazel did meeting in Eindhoven, a seen from the reaction of officials ex ecutives, gave us a good start to go on with solidarity campaign Holland.
'Eindhoven was the first place that the official un was drawn l Ac tivists in the union have dam headquarters of the Dutch (FNV) into setting up a bank accoun £100,00 has now been placed in it."
Sociálist Action '2 November 1984 • DATE there has been little cession of cace policy. Only now, after Merence has overwhelmingly acded it, is that debate beginning. inlist Action has consistently apaigned against its adoption. - will continue to oppose the *y because of its commitment NATO and to developing conational forces in Europe to sown plans forejiging its which fits neatly into ropean strategy. TONY BENN, prominent campaigner for Lateral nuclear disarmament, for the document. JOHN ISS asked him why.
• first thing I wanted to ask was why a voted for the Labour Party defence cument? ¿ like the curate's egg. It was patchy. id say clearly that we would go nondear, that is cancel Trident, send i cruise and decommission Polaris. d it did give some attention to what meant by non-nuclear defence ách was full of defence thinking of a od I've never been very interested in. But there was one aspect I thought is quite wrong: saying we couldn't brour defence spending down to the percentage ot Gross National oduct as our European allies. This * been a party commitment for a long We tried to get an amendment on at the national executive, but failtold us something bour's economic policy. After all, rcentages of GNP aren't just about fence. If you increase the percentage
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Holland seeking support for the battle against pit The tour was a big success. By the time they