SUSAT SOGAT NGA ApacUNTE VI SPUIt MURDOCHS This Even the of police harassment.
we heard speeches from two sacked women members of SOGAT, from the wife of sacked printer, and from striking Silentnight who told us: 'You're where it counts on the picket Brenda Dean came forward to report on the good news. She had just come meeting in Leeds, where it was agreed to set up a runa for workers.
She told of the success of the boycott campaign. Paper boys have been refusing to deliver the Sun and forcing newsagents to sell 'non-scab' alternatives Returns of the Sun are 50 per cent in some areas, and the paper has lost journalists.
Dean told of the growing international solidari ty. Workers in the Finnish Dave industry recently lobbied the British bassy in protest against the way British trade unionists being treated. there is to be an international trade rally next week Wembley, with Neil Kinnock on the platform. Brenda summed thev're not ragotiated settlement will take our jobs. have to be concluded.' She then called on five women THE d to accompany her to replace the six official pickets.
The evening continued with loud angry shouts at the approach of scab lorries. Lots of Wapping songs keep the picket going The clearest sentiments throughout the march and speeches were about class solidarity and scabs. This was expressed by the wife of sacked SOGAT worker whose husband she said, had been loyal to The Times for 32 years whose fathe grandfather had fought for the right to work.
Hammond the electricians, she said, were not playing Her warning: better be clear, you're not going to bowl this maiden over.
Nations Campaign 12 March 1986 Tended the first Ea tended the London public meeting 4 March, support of the prin Held Hamlets, the boro where Fortress Wapping i the meeting adjourned the picket line at the end The platform includer miners leader Pese Heathfield Fleet Stre electricians • léader Sea Geraghty, transpor union leader Bill Morrisas well as national leade of the NGA. SOGAT ai NUJ. In addition SOGA sponsored MP Leighton and black co munity leader Kun Murshid Hamlets spoke.
Peter Heathfield's cor tribution the hig! light - bringing most a plause print workers audian‹ He reminded them that th miners strike 'was not ol exclusive problem, but general struggle facing working people and so to was the print strike. pointed presented to unity by EETPU leadership's port for scabs at Wap!
UDM in Nott and by • the stance of ti Labour leadership 'I get a little tired whe we're seen to be turning wards ourselves. distasteful', Heathle told the rally in an obvio reference to the hunting concerns of Kinnock leadership.
Kumar Mu brought home meeting the importance the alliances the built during their strugg
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