DO NOT CROSS police. Several arrests took place.
Police relations, friendly till then, broke down the same evening. Cheers went up when one inspector was knocked down by a scab lorry turning.
The picket received delegations from other print workers during evening, much support passing But the mood OLOSSES. of determination was expressed best by one striker who said: The Greenam women have been there for tree verts. lads, we've a record to beat!' With the strike into its second week, understanding of the need for mass picketing is beginning to grow. A liaison committee of striking rank and file ALMOST 500 pickets assembled last Saturday evening in the biggest turn out yet at the Wapping plant. At one point in the early evening demonstrators managed to block the road, only to be repelled by print workers met for the first time on Tuesday last week to discuss how to increase the action against Rupert Murdoch's operation We think that mass pickets are the answer in this dispute, Larry Hyett of the SOGAT machine branch told Socialist Action. 'Brenda Dean has expressed herself being tavour "traditional tactics" this strike. As far as we're concerned that winning the about. 'We have set up the liasion committee to argue for that course of action at chapel branch meetings. And we are trying to build support for the strike through the miners
4 Socialist Action 7 February 1986