PICKET WAPPING!
las a newspaper with the Post Office d he Cardinal Enterprises, PO Box 50, London NI - Taneridge Lid. (LU), London Da A PROLONGED STRIKE in the print is now Never before has there been so urgent a need to rally round the print workers. Every unionist worthy of the name must campaign flat out in support of the TUC's call to all unions to respect SOGAT picket lines.
Murdoch wants to force company unionism down the throats of print workers. If he gets his way at And it will make it that much easier for bosses in every other industry to adopt a 'take it or leave it' approach to union agreements.
Single union deals, no-strike underway.
can to defeat the print workers.
NGA Event picketing at Wapping.
other sites will follow.
laws should be broken. clauses, an end to the closed shop, tions -and all the other measures to cripple and undermine the unions will get movement an enormous shot in the arm if Murdoch wins. He will use everything he Murdoch is determined to ex- solidarity. ploit the Tory anti-union laws to the full. SOGAT has already been served with an iniunction against so-called secondary picketing to try to prevent workers at the wholesalers showing their solidarity. The same action is being contemplated to preTo win the dispute, these laws will have to be confronted head-on be called out in and the lessons of the miners NGA and SOGAT. strike drawn. The miners were absolutely right to insist these bosses stake.
Picketing of Orgreave propor- distribute his this time backed by the power of the whole trade union - WIll be needea to closi Wapping. The TUC's call to respect official pickets will only be enforced through the sort of campaign need. ed to build such mass actions of This approach has to be applied first to the print industry. Murdoch's actions will not be broken bi other newspaper proprietors taking nis sales, asis claimed. Ally duvanc for News International will be used as a stepping stone by the rest of the press barons. Rather than boosting print runs, other print workers must solidarity by the Railworkers also have a direct Murdoch's attempt DaUCES by road threatens over 1000 rail jobs.
The role of the electricians union cannot be ignored. They are running roughshod over Bridlington in the print and other industries.
They are promoting UDM-style WILH the bosses which throw every shred of trade unionism out the window. yemey are call ing the protection of the self-same Bridlington rules to stop other unions recruiting their members or moving , into those sectors of industry staffed by electricians.
Only all-out action can win the most decisive dispute facing prin workers in decades. The NGA and SOGAT have taken the first steps by calling out their News International members. Victory to the print workers means stepping up that action - now!