Victory has been won at Durhain Uruvmrity, where students have heen camp aping to stop Enoch Poweltrom speak ing. Because of pressure from the students University Council decided to bar him from the promises - probably the time that an MP has been denied peaking facilities by a British University.
Pawell has written to the rigin- Dehatna Society. declining their avitation, despite fact that they own. He has been frightened off 'becuase of the opposition in the area The Stop Powell Committer at Durham had achieved a response throughout the Narth-East and parts of Yorkshire Students and trade union militants from as Tar away as Shetfield were planning to join the demoostration against Powell's meeting, and several Trades Councils in the area were giving support, The victory at Durham has been a defeat not Just for the University right, but for Nutional Front which has made the North support for their rucist idous behind PoweL's respectable front.
Following this victory the Stop Powell Committee plans to hold a teach-in on the afteroon of Suturday 24 November where the nature of Powellism, and the Tuture struggle against fascism and racism will be discussed agement agreed to withdrew redundancy noticed pending further negotiations Plans to sell off the site to property de velopers wire rapidly changed after solidarity action disrupted the Mirror. Striking journalists on two Sheffield newspapers came up hard against the realities of the class struggle last week when management used prolfessional atrike-breaker Tony Bilton to bring in newsprint across picket lines.
Bilton first cante to prominence over the summer when he organised a consoy of lorries to break through picket lines ut Chryster in Coventry At that time his uction was cond cmned by the Sbeffield Morning Ter egraph. but by Saturday morning. when his lorry caused E100 worth of damage to a picket's cur, manament had obviously had a change of heart.
The strike at Sheffield is only one of a nomber of disputes which have arisen as a resuit of official action over the national dain for provincial journalists lodged with the New spaper Society. In Middlesborough for instance, journalists on the fe sing Gazette began an indefinite stoppage on Monday after manage ment cut their wages by ElS. On the sure day, Jourbalists working on
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