fast Saturday, leading several hundred people from local trade unions and organisations of the Inbour movement. Among those represented on the march were Greenwich Labour Party, which had organised the demonstration, Greenwich Tenants' Committee, Greenwich CP, S.E. London IMG, Woolwich IS, and WRP.
the picketing laws, saying that if any miner was imprisoned under these laws, the miners would remain on strike until their release.
tioneering speech without mentioning the need for solidarity with the miners to defeat Phase Three, or the Labour Party's position on picketing laws, A positive feature of the rally, however, was the call made for all organisations present to attend a meeting, sponsored by the local trades council, for the following Tuesday at which it is hoped to set up a local miners' solidarity committee to work for support and solidarity actions in the area. on wilich they have shown vigour or alertness in responding to developments in the class struedle wasin their vicious attacks on miners leader Mick McGahey. McGahey had committed power of the ruling class- something which every social democrat holds dear to his heart.
The Parliamentary Lahour Party seems bent Yet most local Lahour Parties are doing their upon bringing about its own defeat-either at the polls or in Goverument, A Labour victory in the clection is more likely to stimulate the mass struggle of the working class than a Tory actory-that s why the IMG calls tor a vote for the Labour Party. But the only way to work for a working class victory, on the electoral Trunt ly engaged.
To this end anti-Tory conferenoes should he organised in every area lo coordinate the struggle against the Government: to work out practical measures of solidarity with the miners, Security Act, says that in an emergency, assessed payments, and gave, at the most, a tiny fraction SUPP A contingent of miners from the Betteshanger Colliery marched through Greenwich and Charlton At the concluding rally. Terry Harrison from Betteshanger spoke about the miners' claim and Jimmy Hill, a local GMWU shop steward, pledged full support for the miners, saying that theirs was a fight to defeat the Tory Government. Guy Barnett, MP for Greenwich, made an empty elec to step up local strugples against Phase 3 and the 3-day week, to launch a massive campaign to free the jailed Shrewsbury workers and smash the anti-picket laws, to plan a campaign of mass and industrial action around the clection. The attacks on the working class organisafious, raging inflation, the Housing Fiance Act, the imprisonment and force feeding of Irish militants, the cuthacks in social and educa tional expenditure, all constitute more than enough dry linder for a mas political conflag TELLITE It is around these issues that united action must be built. Such a mass campaign could and on all other fronts, is by pushing forward all defeat the Tories at the polls and on the picket the mass struggles in which workens are present- lines, despite the sabotaging work of the Labour Jeadership. It would also serve to prepare the way for carrying these struggles to a victorious conclusion, no matter what Government emerges after the election.