Lee Must Go! Build a United Front of Railmen and Miners!

The miners, about /Pitroduc tiorBt integrated fuel policy, have been brazenly shelved. Until, belatedly, Mr, Fraser was sacked, the same thing, was happening to the railwaymen. Since Barbara Castle was given the chance, it/now become possible that some of the worst damage to the prospect of an integrated transp~ ort system car. be undone, if she backed by a fierce campaign to give powers to attack the vested interests which stand in the way. But the matter has been left dangerously late, and could prove beyond rescue, Urgently, then the miners must secure the same reversal of policy which is implied in transport. Mr. Lee, who, we understand, is profoundly miserable at the role he has been manceuvred into playing, ebviously is not capable of withstanding treasury and departmental pressures, He must join Mr, Fraser, and a new man must be feund te represent the promises which Labeur made to Britain's mineworkers, Let every miners! branch and ledge be able to travel by agreement with the N.U.Re, so that the « enly trains on the lines will be full of protesting coal-miners. This would be a powerful reminder tn the Gnvernment of what is possible once its often neglected, and now shamefully misused, supporters can Gq when their passions are aroused, Certainly the miners and the railmen must link tegether in the fight against the attempt to contrnl wages te stabilse capitalism. This is the fight of all workerse All workers, tno, must take heed ef the Callaghan-Jay axis and its apparent determination to induce enough unemployment to impose wage-restraint by simple market pressure. For the miners, these two general dangers are augmented by a third especial nne: that of the complete subordination of coal to oil, and the dismemberment of the mining indus try which is being remorse1y remorselessly pushed through by Fred Lee. eo tnll arising from our determination te main im our members! standard of living, we feel we are left with ne alternative ‘but te instruct our members to withdraw © their labour from 00.01 hours on Monday, 14th February, 1966, and decide accordingly." With these werds the N.U.R. began a new phase in the history ef the labour movements a phase in which the trade union movement, which founded the Lahour Party, is compelled to come imte conflict with a Labour Gevernment. On the same day, news reaches us, another sorely mistreated group of workers will be in action. The Scottish N.U.M. has calzed fer a lobby of’ Parliament, and has invited other areas to joim in, It is to be hoped that many will des. The Scots are chartering aeroplanes, perhaps others, nearer, might join in, and let all voices be raised wi.th the slegan: "Fred Lee must Gol", <A combined émonstration by railmen and miners might yet help to reverse some 9f the worst anti-working class measures and help those whe are struggling for the re~assertion of socialist priorities, * : J