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to m accep const YOUR EXCELLENT coverage of Laurence Scotts points out the need to fight fur democracy in the AUEW and the need to publicise the dispute in the wider labour movement.

What we must emphasise and re-emphasise right now, however, is the central weapons which might just still bring home the bacon: picketing and blacking. And it's no good just picketing the LSE plant itself.

If Duggie Daniels and John Tocher are, as they claim to be, still supporting the dispute, then let's see action rather than words.

They must be pushed to point the finger specifically at Arthur Scargill, Walt Greendale (the Hul: dockers' leader and Scargill's fellow General Council member) and the British Oxygen stewards, who Dear Comrades, I feel I must tell you of my recent experience with the Militant tendency.

After being a contact for three or four weeks I went along to a group meeting and was accepted into the Militant. At this time I was still finding out about their programme and politics.

I was led to believe they were revolutionary tendency fighting within the Labour Party, and l was asked to join the Labour Ward filled in form and it was sent ward, w here it was ed and se it on to the the conhave in the past acquired reputation for militancy.

They should say publicly to them: 'Are you serious? Do you really want to get rid of Thatcher? If so, call on your members to black all Mining Supplies products'. [Mining Supplies is LSE owner Arthur Snipe's main company].

And rather than relying on other workers, Daniels and Tocher should organise picketing of Hull docks, the Yorkshire mines, and British Oxygen plants -and of course Mining Supplies itself.

If the officials are not prepared to do this immediately, then their support means little and the strikers must act themselves.

Tony Benn, Bob Wright and Peter Hain, who have declared support for the workers, should also be stituency EC someone told the committee that I was a member of the SWP and my membership was referred to the General Management Committee.

At the GMC (after some wrangling) it was put to a vote and I lost.

My membership was then referred back to the ward and I have to go on September 9 to give my explanation.

(1 should just tell you that before becoming involved with the Militant I did attend some SWP meetings, but I broke any links I had with them before joining the Militant).

I was very curious as to who had said I was an SWP pressed to ask Scargill and Greendale what they are doing rather than saying about the strike. If rhetoric is converted into action, victory can still be snatched from the jaws of defeat.

RODERICK McCORLEY P.S. I showed this letter to a member of the Communist Party, who argued that it personalised matters and divided the left.

My answer was that if Arthur and Walt are not prepared to put their money where their mouth is, they increase cynicism about left leaders, and it is they who divide the movement, because their inaction must help the bosses, Boyd and Duffy, and of course Margaret Thatcher other think? THE MARAIST PAPERFOR ABOUR 3 OUT DESPAIR ANGER into Intr: