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£170.46 is the sum received over the last seven days towards our £600 December Fund target.

This brings the total this month to £426.73.

With the Christmas post greatly delayed it is More details important that a major effort is made in the week after Christmas to raise all the outstanding money, Id like more information about the Workers and make an early start on the January Fund.

With a new set of price increases adding to our running costs due in the New Year it is more important than ever that the fight is taken up to | Sickening appeal : In a display alition spirit, ting appeal f strike-br alties" having been put i the way of their receivig social security money which they are ititled sometime leader" of the labour ovement started a bllection.

But Lord George-Brown's ¡lection was not for the remen but for the scabs of le army.

of Christmas Brown's sickor charity to sakers was FUND raise the full amount each month.

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Socialist Press Monthly Fun launched along with Liberal MP Jo Grimmond and Tories Ian Gilmour and Winston Churchill.

In a series of letters to the bourgeois press they spoke of members of the armed forces "who will have almost nothing with which to brighten this Christmas for their families, let alone themselvês"

It is worth remembering that this venomous traitor rose to political eminence due to his claims to fight for the interests of the working class.

For several years he was deputy leader of the Labour 31, Dartmouth Park Hill London NW5 IHK Markers I would League.

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Address Trade Union It is a long time since anyone associated this wretch with the labour movement but his conduct reminds us that the top echelons of the Labour Party and trade union movement are still infested with parasites every bit as loathsome as Brown.

Earlier this month Brown was one of the guests of honour at a dinner given by the Institute of Journaliststhe anti union body which recruited Josephine Kirk Smith at Darlington, when her refusal to join the NUJ sparked off the seven month strike there for a closed shop.

The labour movement must not wait for such creatures to gorge themselves on workers' blood and leave of their own accord like Brown and Prentice.

They must be expelled from the movement on which they prey.

'Occ atic WSL, 31, Dartmouth Nothing can be gained trom this. The courts have been exposed time and time again as biased in favour of the extreme right wing, and the armed agents of the capitalist class.

The jailing of Grunwick pickets, • the prohibition of blacking action by postal workers and the injunctions flying in Newham North East Labour Party are all examples fresh in mind of the hostility of the courts to the labour movement.

"Benevolent" judge

More and more the law is being brought in to reverse and destroy democratic processes.

It is a matter of principle not to invite further such interference.

But even if Scargill and the three other area leaders should happen to find a "benevolent" judge, nothing would be resolved The right wing would make the running in a long drawn-out legal wrangle, while the central issue-the frustration of miners on the wages question-would remain unresolved.

It is frustration al the towards the reactionary incentives scheme.

While Scargill squanders time and money on lawyers, the £135 pay claim-which was adopted at the NUM Conference and tacitly endorsed in the ballot which threw out the incentives plan -has been allowed to gather dust in Gormley's waste bin.

And for many miners Scargill, McGahey and others calling industrial action simply against incentive schemes -separate from the pay claim-would be the last straw.

It certainly appears from Morning Star reports that Stalinist McGahey has been holding back on action on wages.

Gormley-claim in waste bin.

A Scottish delegate conference voted 19-7 to demand a special national conference to discuss "various, forms of industrial action" to implement the pay claim, and to reject and condemn the Executive's plan for area incentive schemes.

"Complete unity"

McGahey told the Star. *there was complete unity on the question of our stand as a Scottish area, but some people wanted immediate PHOTO: Andrew Wiard, Report McGahey and the 'lefts' have delayed nearly two months after the NUM claim should have been settled.

Latter-day piecework Yet in opposing the NCB's speed-up plans and upholding the £135 claim they have been proved to represent the majority of miners.

While right wingers attempt to lead miners into the dangers of a latter-day piecework on an area basis, those that showed majorities against the plan must take strike action for the pay claim, giving a lead to all miners.

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