stration in Cardiff last Tuesday.NUM and leading left-winger on the National Executive, felt obliged to apologise for his union's appearance before the Tories' relativities He said that he had told the TUC 'I don't like the phrase "special case"
miners are not begging to be treated as a special case. I'm not prepared to put that type of argument at the expense of lower-paid engineers, postmen, agricultural workers and others.
It isa shame that Mr. Daly was not spuro to tou the or borcement the same thing he so "bravely told the TUC. The relativities inquiry witich he attended is a body setup, clearly and openly, to deal with special case ag uments - and to make sie that special cases' are kept spocial.
Daly was told this to his face by Pay Board CHairman SIr Prank Picgures who spelled it out in his opening speach the pathetie excuse that We oily got involved in the relativities discussion when we were virtually dragged before the Pay Board.
But low can a bunch af umon: leaders who are afraid to make up their minds about what moetings they will and will not atcend, hope to defeat a Government and win a strike? If te mities inquiry, and insisted that they would only cooperate with a body that was not bound up with Tory incomes policy, they would have smashed the reiativities trap to stitheroets and caused a big set back for the Government's attempt lo impose Phase 3.
As it is the NUM exocutive can now be depicted by the Tories as a beine advertisement for the relativities machinery and Phase 3.
The executive's cooperation with the inquiry and its insistence on keeping at the cost of makeng pockets inclective a sies tha, the executive hopes to win thas striple without a real fielt victory for Labour in the election and a prompt settlement with a new Labour Government, or on a new Tory Govemment being caper to get the contry back to work, and prepared to pay for it.
They thee want to avoid picketing confrontations, both for fear of having an adverse effect on Labour's electoral chances and to prevent a hardening of relations with the Tones, and are prepared to take part in the relativitics inquiry in order to demonstrate to the electorate the reasonableness" of trade anions, and to give the Tories an openine: to settle should they win the cloction.
Even if the NUM executive's caleulations tum out to have been correct wid there was a srious passary that tis miners couls have found then sulves lacine new Tory Government determined to smash incur serise tan eventualty for when the executive's strategy lett thems stenetbon the hand of thos and tory - who demand wore restrimt TO POETS OREST, WE MENe once son, and l does notting to promote working class unity.
the amity of the workine casions monE to hant back against so best attack is Bus being weakened by the NUM execWavE s mangerstine But a sas some of the damage can still be parched up The NUM leadership must issue and publicis a declaration that they support wage sett lements for chery group of workers smilar to the minerx claim, that they ace opposed ta any form of incomes policy or wage restrait under capitalism, unc арро any deal with a Labour CoveremAn to Hold waves down. Resolutions co this effeet should be adapred by NUM branches and area commitices scross the Another major way in whach the NUM can make up for it wrong policy over the relaties inquiry and strike a blow lor works Bas any is by cakine an the proposal of Jack Collins. Kent area repres native on thie NUM executive, and makiap the frocing of the jailed Sheewshery PLACE de oTHer record to work This also should be prossed for by branches and area committees.
Ray Alexander to rule the country in this time of crisis must adopt drastic measures. The miserable string of reforms which Labour advocates are a joke. There are only two roads class and make the capitalist class pay the price for the crisis their system has created, or the road of drastic capitalist policies that will piace the burdens of the crisis onto the backs of the workers in order to preservo capitalist profits.
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and leadership of the Labour Party will work to set it on the road of capitalist policies. Only the most -Labsour highly orpanised and determined forms of strugele by working neople can prevent a Labour Government from implementing policies essentially identical to those of the Tories. and set the workers' movement on the road to a socialist solution The defeat of the Tories will be seen by the mass of warking people as a vitory that will boost thear tighting spirt, The formation expectations and inspire millions of workers to think and discuss about the type of policies that should be followed.
this response heyond thouglit and talk to organisalion. la convince warkers that policies that should be adopted by the Government can also be implemented inmediately and directly by the workers move HWEIL.
The union bureaucrats and the Labour Government will try to cook up a deal to keep wages down - but even if Lahnur could caacantee to
The Tory Goverument has gone. Labto the wall, as for example in the case Industry who settled above un unweakness of the workers movement.