Sure; Langwith can be shown energy plan. A fight for such loss of jobs at Langwith and wative members supporting miners in the Nottingham would rally support for the struggle. destruction of jobs.
unions is frantic with worry that the miners' action will become the focus for a real challenge to the unemployment policies of the Wilson Government. NUM President Joe Gormley has denounced the decision as a 'fiasco', and the press has opened its pages to fellow right-wingers to slander the decision and split the miners. The aim of their campaign is clear.
The miners twice thwarted the plans of the Tory Government. In 1974 it was their strike that brought the Tories down. The aim of the press campaign and right-wing bureaucracy is to prevent the miners from playing a leading role now in the fight against Wilson's anti-working class For the first time under the Labour Government, national industrial action is being taken against the The National Union of Mineworkers executive has ordered a national overtime ban in defence of 800 jobs at Langwith pit in Derbyshire.
The right wing in the trade policies. It follows the patStern shown in the press's intervention in the Engineering Union elections, and Varley and Wilson's attacks on the Chrysler strike.
UNPREPARED But unfortunately the left on the Miners' executive has not prepared the membership adequately for the action.
Although the coal industry is facing another wave of Sixties-style pit closures as the Coal Board rationalises production in the large, high productivity fields, the details of these attacks are not widely known As in steel and the railways, it is vital that the exmand the opening Coal Board's books, to to Above: right-wing President of the NUM, Joe Gormley.
Below: mass meeting of Leicester miners which condemned the scabbing efforts of their executive member Frank Smith during the 1974 strike the overtime ban immediate- and Leicester fields can be overtime ly launch a campaign to de- won away from the right- miners at the head of the of all wing misleaders.
expose these plans for fur- miners' leader Arthur Scarther rationalisation and clos- gill called for an integrated be the thin end of the a workers' plan now against to open the books is the By doing this the the NCB's job-cutting plans vital L THE TUC ban and put fight for ce right to work Some time ago, Yorkshire throughout the working class.
But the demand for no one to prepare the
2 Jobs Red Weekly 19 February 1976