London NUPE says 11 MAY stration, and the militancy of the NALGO members in ignoring both their courts and official leadership, are yet turner testimonies to the growing anger felt by trade unionists acainsane curs and those in their 'leadership' who by men support or the socid have helped to change the date to 19 April in line with the one day strike against the Contract called by the Leyland combine stewards.
IMG members, with those of the SWP, argued that: to fight effect ively against the cuts we have to fight the Social Contract between union leaderships and the Labour Government is an obstacie to organising a serious campaign against the cuts. As one delegate explained, this was why TGWU has refused to support the Another resolution from Hammersmim mossa acerales was ruled out of order despite earlier assurances that motions would be the floor. Their motion called for support for the lobby at the 22 March meeting of the Steering Committee Conter ence set up on 17 November of last year. The delegates argued that the lobby should call for national public sector strike action on 19 It is remarkable that the latest coverage of the Irish war should focus on whether the establishment press are 'dupes of the IRA. Airey Neave Tory spokesperson on the North of Ireland, called for more censorship of Irish affairs, saying that the BBC, of all people, were 'undermining the propaganda war in Ulster.
The day after Neave's outburst, the published a detailed report of various 'dirty tricks' the British Army has been up to in the North of Ireland -ranging from assassinations to the printing of Loyalist newspapers. Doubtless Neave considers such reports as 'damaging to the morale of the British Army'; in other words, 'the truth hurts' Neave would Northern Ireland Minister, who recently demanded that the BBC stopped reporting any activities of 'paramilitar'ies'. On censorship, as on the rest of the Irish war, the line is Tory and Labour Government 'bipartisanship'. PACT OF SILENCE The reason for the public raising of a few doubts about Britain's conduct of the Irish war is a desire by the press to appear to be putting their house in order, before others do it for them. That storm threatened to break after the recent revelation by Jonathan Dimbleby that a 'pact of silence operates in the BBC and the ITA on reporting the views of the IRA. It is brewing up again with the discussion in the National Union of Journalists on press reporting of the North of Ireland. There are four resolutions going to the NUJ conference for an enquiry into this coverage.
There i. little doubt that such an enquiry would reveal a web of distortion, lies and black propaganda which would make even the coverage of car workers' disputes seem fair by comparison. All militants have a vested interest in backing such an enquiry; for the sooner the truth about British presence in Ireland is revealed, the sooner the discussion of press last week Sunday Times joined by Roy Mason, Labour's