Saturday Wapping demonstration Sunday — a five hour delay. grow La. Other sections of has progressively movement the Saturday and mid-week demonstrations as key events around which to mobilise. Miners, Women Against Pit Closures (WAPC) movement in have given a lead on this.
WAPC nave mobilised with women in SOGAT LAST SATURDAY night saw by far the biggest turn called by the Saturday night demonstrations.
Support groups
now being established in most major centres and in a number of mining communities. These have been initiated primarily by the printworkers but are drawing in many of the activists SUU" ported the miners through their year-long dispute. These are beginning to political support through TATISS funds, gather rallies and conferences and mobilise mass pickets demonstrations.
Miners at South Kirkby and Frickley colJeries in Yorkshire have instituted a f1 a week levy. Martin president at Kirkby NUM xplained why: The prin vorkers were one of th NUM's SUU" porters in our strike. They are now in the firing line and need our support. We are ready any calls for solidarity the printers make.
provocative 12 foot high iron railings in front of the echoed by Anthur Scargil, was president of the NUM, at a LU CURE memorate the second anniversary of the death of David Jones on the picket mounted Wembley and Shore and Prescott speakUnfortunately, despite the mounting movement, the demands of the print union leaderships are conare unclear wooden pallets, rubble, obscuring the need unify printworkers on the national dailies against the attacks on all printworkers. This especially marked in the failure to link the struggle against Murdoch with the struggle against Robert Maxwell in response to Maxwell's closure of the Record.
This entire apor solidaries solidarity the need action In Fleet Street.
By echoing the attacks of the Tories and the police on militant pickets Brenda Dean also tends to undermine solidarity. linenternational proach, print union leaders ought to take a lea out of Scargill's book and demand action from thi TUC and Labour Party not just fine words. This could start with dumping prospective parliamentary candidate for Stevenage who is a Sun journalist presently scabbing at Wapping.
No barbed wire or electric fences will prevent vic tory if the printers win th full active backing of the labour movement. Buildsupport committees and mobilising for the Saturday night demonstra tions is today's key task.
longer', a truly effective picket was maintained
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DISTRIBUTION of Murdoch's papers can be stop- ped. This was the message from the 10,000-strong
London district council of SOGAT 82. Only vicious police attacks finally broke the picket at 2.30am