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aMEN 5 DELL Detecting the dire straits of right wing miners' leaders in their efforts to railroad in acceptance of the NCB's inh-slashino cafetvwrecking "incentive" scheme, Energy Secretary Tony Benn decided to help them out.

Attempting to play on miners' distant memories of the days in which he posed as a 'left' alternative to Wilson and Callaghan, Benn issued a statement backing incentives.

Evils

The plan, he claimed, was "designed to avoid the evils of past piece-work schemes"

Of course any such proIt is false to believe that the NEC can re-establish the functioning of the local party without a political confrontation with the courts.

The right wing will not shrink from legal action to block any moves to re-introduce the democratic rights of constituency members.

In the three days of the and was based "on machine oWer, and not muscle ower."

Benn's present role in the Lib-Lab coalition cabinet is highlighted by this latest attack on working conditions in the pits.

Erected

The Callaghan-Steel government was erected first and foremost as a means of cutting the wages of the working class as a means of increasing the rate of exploitation.

Now that the strategy has been widened to incorporate a concerted drive to increase effort and cut manning levels throughout industry, Benn clearly feels obliged to prove PHOTO: Andrew Wlard, Report.

Tony Benn technicalities.

Three of the accused have had their cases dismissed and the right wing witnesses who have appeared so far have been discredited.

Two more of the cases have not been proceeded with on the grounds of technical faults in the writs.

Every effort is being made by the authorities to avoid a confrontation between • the labour movement and the "Left-winger"

Last minute rearrangement of the court's time-table brought the case before Justice Payne-widely regarded as a "left-winger" among judges.

The cases are being argued in such a way as to avoid the necessity for political argument.

The CLP is now under the supervision of the NEC pending an investigation by the four man commission headed by Eric Heffer.

It is believed that this investigation will take place at the end of November.

Party members have

yet been informed of the terms of reference for the enquiry or invited . to give evidence.

To avoid a bureaucratic evasion of the politics of the Newham NE events all party members should press on with moves to expel the crypto-Tories.

They should also insist on their right to give evidence to anew his dedication Callaghan.

But if Benn as a ministe has been pressed out into th open, other 'left' Labour MI surreptitiously fulfil equally reactionary role i their tacit acceptance of th Lib-Lab coalition.

The fight must be steppe up to break this rotten de: in which the Labour Party completely subordinated the bourgeois politicians c the Liberal Party.

The right wing coalitior ists and their 'left' defender must be driven from a leadership positions an expelled from the Labou ARTHUR SCARGILI Yorkshire miners leader, hi led a confused campaig against the NCB incentir scheme.

between supportir reactionary legal moves b Kent miners to get a cou injunction against the ballo Scargill has been attemptir to mobilise miners to voi against the plan.

He has also found time 1 give a two-page interview 1 Socialist Challenge.

But he saved enough tim and energy to deliver resounding left wing speec on October 28 in which b called for action to destro the 12-month rule and th 10% limit.

His audience must har been impressed. He wi speaking at the annual confe ence of that well known lef wing body, the Institute c Personnel Management.

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KENTICET ORY LEVIS INFLTMATOO HER NEWHAM PHOTO: Andrew Wiard, Report.