PAUL HARRIS deputy FOC at the Sun was at the The Wapping dispute is now in a critical period. Figures just published for the News International titles show that the boycott campaign mounted by sales.
with the urgent need to review their tactics and consider new ways of stepping up the action. But instead the national executive committee of SOGAT at its meeting on Monday discused ways of retreating from the fight with Murdoch. Although it decided, for the time being, not to purge the contempt of court imposed for its instruction to its members in the wholesalers not to handle News International titles. But this was simply a postponement.
Meanwhile SOGAT's leadership has put to Murdoch proposals for ending the dispute which capitulate every key point Murdoch's demands. They would • No recognition of chapels or branches level. Instead, the SOGAT SATURDAY The unions and printworkers are therefore faced leadership proposed single joint union body with sole negotiating non-recognition unions needless add, abandonment of the closed shop. • No minimum staffing levels, no union rights over hiring, and complete flexibility of working with no demarcation lines.
An EEPTU-type no-strike deal In this framework, the SOGAT leadership considering the stunt offer Murdoch's former Grays Inn Road premisses to produce a "labour movement paper.
A similar weak-kneed response has come from the executive of the National Union of Journalists. After the national NUJ had repudiated the executives failure to institute disciplinary proceeding against those of its members working at Wap ping, the executive still refused to act in defiance of conference deciThe the union leaderships does not reflect the mood militancy of the rank and file. The sacked Murdoch workers are still organising regular mass pickets down at Wapping and have put out a call for support from the rest of the movement Day Saturday 3 May In response to news of th leaderships they called a lobby of their ex ecutive meeting. and newly selected to fight Nottingham HaST for Labour, gave her commit the miners' struggle in her Callag 'Labour owes the miners a lot,' she said, 'and it must repay the debt.
The message from the rally was clear: : no compromises, no delays, no CACUSCS but action. As Scargill put it, must be as ruthless with mer cass as natcherna been with ours.' This meeting showed a porting it in Notts. marker significant remobilisation force which had receded for a while after une strike's end. It also showed the depth of awareness which goes on developing among miners and their allies One thing is certain: Nott: NUM is alive and kickin to fight on in the name o justice for mineworkers.
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the print union leaderships as their main tactic is having little or no effect on their distribution and
PRINTWORKERS MARCH FOR JOBS DAY 3° MAY IN LONDON AT 7-30 ON THE EMBANKMENT
Announce a major march and * DEWAPPATION * AT WAPPING MAY DAY Thursday May Ist 1986 Assemble Tower Hill from 8-pm