even pay your telephone rental. No person employed in the engineering grades can atAfter all if the worker could afford to live off the interest from their capital they wouldn't sign on every day.
The decisions about technology that will invade our homes and mould our society are being taken now. The truth is that private companies are more concerned with their overall efficiency of the telecommunications system.
How can trade unionists get the truth about privatisation?
Socialist coverage of the issues involved, the response of the unions and the Labour Party and campaign reports from the POEU areas. To combat the Tory propaganda of the Sun and The Mail trade unionists need to read a paper they can trust to bring them the facts. That paper is Socialist Challenge.
Socialist Challenge 22 October 1982 page 4 the kind of profits rather than the Challenge will have regular Wilkins ARE campaigning for industrial action over both jobs and wages and this 1s a struggle that we have TO win. It will demonstrate to the working class that the way to win through strong Icadersnip. will show that the Tories are not and begin a DIOCES fighting throw them out After a slow start, the campaign for a 'yes vote in the ballot is taking off. At Tower colliery we have already had six meetings to cover all shifts, and more are planned. I'm confident that in Wales and other militant areas we will get a solid majority for action, and that nationally the vote will go our way.
We have lost 37.000 jobs in 7 years and 12,000 in the last vear alone intend to stop this. This is the first time that a national ballot has linked jobs, closures and pay. This means that it is more likely that we shall win the support of more moderate areas who might have been prepared to accept the eight per cent pay offer on its own.
It is the NCB which has linked the issues of pay and wages. During the negotiations they offered more money if the union agreed to cut production - in other words to accept job loss.
But the miners have learned the steel workers experience. Their leadership had the wrong approan ancy remused te fight on jobs and pay in the 1980 strike. And now look how many steel jobs have gone.
MINCES TCCOATISH that new technology in the pits also threatens jobs. At Selby, through technology, 5-6,000 miners can produce more than 27,000 Wales. That's why we need a four-day week technology doesn't mean miners on the doic.
The overtime ban will show miners how low their basic wages really are E64 for sur Tack workers £84 for coalface workers In South Wales there are already strike commit- вита Laeserye on the experience of the '74 and *81 strikes. Through these district based committees every pit is involved in planning fo the strike. This is a strug gle we cannot afford to lose — so much is at stake, not only for us but for the whole labour movement. MARTIN HILL talked to Kevin Hallender, a young miner from Beighton Colliery, South Yorkshire THE MINERS at my pit are for a strike by a big maZOHEY. roansing now that they didn't back Ine umon on last year strike call. They know they've got to this time or What we get this year wil affect our wages for years to come. Different pits get different - bonuses year I took £94. That's with the best bonus Eve had for months.
But I'm on top rate. Surface workers average E65 That affects all As you get older. or if you're injured, Have to Bo Dr surface working. Then you drop back to the lowest rate It's not just wages that matter either Our pit is a suspect pit. If there are closures, we'll be hit. know every other industry is being hit by unemploy Ours is going to bi hit soon. A lot of pits are up for the chop. We've got to be ready to fight that.
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ford the kind of money that finance houses and the city will use to buy large share issues.
TYRONE O'SULLIVAN, secretary of the Tower Lodge of South Wales NUM spoke to Barry