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30 ACROSS 1 Look back upon (10) 8 Go back over again (7) 9 Tedium (5) 10 Run away secretly (5) 11 Look at (6) 12 Hurled (6) 14 Provide evidence (6) 16 Surround (7) 17 Implicit (5) 19 Implicit (5) 20 Understanding (7) 21 Contrition (10) DOWN 1 From better to worse (13) 2 Exchange (5) 3 Egg dish (5) 4 Excuse (7) 5 Rest (13) 6 Encourage (4) 7 Hand tool (6) 12 Pill (6) 13 Struggle (7) 15 Imperfection (6) 17 Giant (5) 18 At that time (4) £50 PRIZE CROSSWORD The winner of last month’s prize crossword is R Stone from Andover. Send entries to Prize Crossword, RMT, Unity House, 39 Chalton Street, London NWI IJD by January 24 with your name and address. Winner and solution in next issue. Last month’s solution... Dear editor, On behalf of the Connolly Association I express appreciation to the recent RMT Annual General Meeting on deciding to affiliate, and thanks to those branches that have already done likewise and would urge further branch affiliations. The Irish working class has a long history of solidarity and particularly the union that was then (NUR) recognised the national right of Irish rail workers to run their own affairs and decided to withdraw and facilitate the setting of the transport union NATE in the 1950’s, and the solidarity still continues following that union’s merger with SIPTU which is the largest trade union in Ireland. The Connolly Association was founded 75 years ago; the aim being to work as an integral part of the British trade union and labour movement, to urge Irish workers to join the appropriate trade union in their workplace to work within it for better pay and conditions for all, and that policy still remains. Additionally, the Association urges the workers of Britain to press politically for a united Ireland through peaceful means, and was influential during the 1960’s and 1970’s when the trade unions in Belfast set up the Civil Rights Movement, and worked for the support of the trade union movement on the British mainland which eventually led to the peaceful road of the Good Friday Agreement and hopefully the way to a united Ireland with the agreement of all Irish people on that island and ongoing peace and solidarity with all countries. We still need that solidarity and support from the British trade unions to achieve that aim. The Connolly Association in 1961 was one of the first organisations in Britain to warn of the dangers of the then Common Market;(now the EU) in that it would lead to a European superstate, erode the rights of workers in Europe to organise and control by subverting national democracy, sadly that is still the case, and this Association’s policy is again to work within the movement here to withdraw from the EU, we are proud to be part of the RMT’s policy, and would urge RMT branches to affiliate. For more information go to www.irishdemocrat.co.uk In Solidarity, Tony Donaghey, Connolly Asssociation PO BOX 753, BOREHAMWOOD WD6 9JA Correction In the last issue of RMT News the accounts for the General Fund and Orphan Fund should have read 2012 and 2011 not 2010 and 2009 as published. The figures included were correct. RMT News apologises for this error. Dear editor, Regarding your article last month on sewage on the tracks, I have been a victim of working in these conditions. I am a welder and after a night shift I was violently ill and my partner phoned an ambulance that took me to hospital. I was overcome by virile meningitis and I lost two stone in weight. I was off work for two weeks yet it took me months to fully recover yet only recently we were sent to work at a station with disgusting human waste all over the track. None of us should have to work in conditions like this and I wouldn’t want anyone to go through what I went through. Regards Name withheld RMT helpline 0800 376 3706 :: january 2014 :: RMTnews IRISH SOLIDARITY AND INDEPENDENCE DISGUSTED AT SEWAGE