marched from Tower weekend. Led by the national council of the NGA, it included printers papers as well as NGA members from as far away as Irent. Among the other union banners were the Inner London leachers Association, themselves in the centre of an ongoing dispute, and Point of Ayr NUM from North Wales.
secretary NGA, spoke at a raliv at the end of the march flanked by banners of the London Ine London. region oi Press NGA, branch allu of the EETPU. He told the 'We keep getting told the dispute about about people. We have to Murdoch, he has to let our clear people work at Wapping hey have the right to a job No government. no cour. no law is going to stop us winning.
believe the faint-hearted who say the Hill last from most of the Fleet Street sales doch's papers are taking a dive. He is having to give a 40 per cent rebate to his davertisers in order to ксер them happy.
'We have tell the truth about the Tory law. No judge has the right to lake away Hom us lne real fines picketing. cannot tine ana imprisor principles.
'We are told the EETPU has seen the light. her say they are back in the old. Whether they are or not, will not forget what they did. We do not want any more me words them, fold, we want them on this side of the picket line.
'We want the Partv to stoo ducking and weaving on this question. We want them up tront MPs should be raising the Cuestu of often possible parliament there another uning tney should sort out. One of those crossing the picket member or ine sun, is a Labour Party prospective Danuallicllary candidate.
name Malcolm Withers. PPC for Stevenage. They snould sort that out.
'We want you back agaln cacn salurday. i ne picket has to be built up remember: VGA TOT Away!' Safer: THey Us EETPU leader Eric Hammond: was also the subject of print pickets at Congress House 200 members. Now we've 370.
'You've only got to ook al inose neures. and the timescale and it doesn't take an expert to work out thal willll anounci couDic of months we are going to have a majority BeverAnd it's not Coles comici just here. At Ollerton, Linby and other pits they sledully ulawing members across.
'Now, one of the things we were depending on was that the NCB would do its usual and put its foot in it. They've done exactly that!
Try time the NCB or the UDM take action you can that we'll get another 20 or 30 members because they act in such a stupid, ham-handed and irrogant wa The reality is that m job's gone, and I honestly don't believe that I'm going to get it back. But we're hoping by keeping the ac tion on at Bevercotes we'll make the NCB think twice before they contemplate moving anyone else future I've doubt that it hadn't Taker action they'd have already moved at pits like Ollerton In ols men are beng sacked for pinning up notices and distributing literature. The print unions under from Murdoch and Max well. The entire union movement : is under anack now racier and her cronies. And what the hell's the Labour Party doing about it? It's stabbing I trades unionists the back and them the That's the last thing they wall to be concentrating on. During ine westlanc affair my old daughter have atTacked lories better then Kinnock did 'It's time that the rank and file, not just in mining but in all the other basic mausines, stallel organise put the backbone, the rank file organisation, back into lic labour moved cal as inis work nas to be co ordinated. We've all got to pull in the same direction What happened with the jailings sackings of continue in other sections of the trade union movement mude on were co ing to see the same thing Bevercotes will spread to other into ing and Cotgrave.
If they don't stand up and fight, it's going to be a green light for manage ment to go ahead and Otherwise the -members W1l say the hell should we join an that even look after its own?' We can't just let this issue go?
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