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Take out a years inland subscription and we will send you free one of these books: JUSTICE: The Miners Strike 1984-86 by the Campaign Group of Labour MPB on Atro American History b walcolme OR The Struggle is My Life by Nelson Mandela The 3000 strong mass meeting workers from Rupert Murdoch's News InternaWapping plant. end claiming that it had no constituted authority.
The meeting had been called by the London Council the wake of the union purging contempt of ' disgust and contempt'. tion the London District put to the signified its intention take over the running the dispute and end the phoney Wal which the Dean leadership has hitherto been conducting The meeting unanimously decided that it would escalate the vappin Fleet at Murloch Street premises. This will include an increase in the morning picketing — like that carried by the clerical branch which resulted in a number of coaches carrying the scabs being turned away from Wapping.
It also decided to reinstate the picketing of the wholesalers which was called off by vediallel her grovelling apology to tional unanimously decided to escalate the action to win reinstatement and union recognition at the SOGAT president for life, Brenda Dean unsuccessfully attempted to defend the leadership's imminent capitulation to Murdoch in the face of slow handclaps and jeering. She argued that the SOGAT leadership had fought hard to win the dispute but 'had been let down by the membership'. Because of the hostility of the meeting, she left well before the the High Court. Other Murdoch production centres are to be hit.
As a sign of the real in tent of the decisions pickets were immediately dispatched to Bemrose Liverpool, where the News of the World colour supproduced These will be re-inforced later London District secretary, Chris Robbins said to loud applause that if this meant incurring the wrath of the courts and the of London branch funds, then so be Dean was told that the purge decision nonetheless needed to be reversed to allow the union to appeal for support TOT picketing to the rest of the trades union movement.
To monitor the dispute, there will be a weekly meeting of all London branch officers, Mothers and Fathers of the chapels, represenPicketing Office, and officers of all other unions involved dispute. This will operate as a de facto strike committee.
An opportunity now exists to renew support in the rest of the movement for the fight for re-instatement and union recoonition at wapping. I is now vital to span out to the rest of the trades union movement.
The miners hit every trades looking for political financial support. should the printers. TUC and the Labour Party Conference have to be targetted DaCk the dispute.
«ine Fleet Street workers now facing We have attacks already seen the imposiof draconian conditions at the Express and the manage limbering for against the unions.
Fleet Street response is possible and in dispensible Prior to this meeting rank and file print workers had been organising begin precisely this sort of fightback. Now is the time tor them to identify with and lead the fight to implement this resolution.
Instead of standing on ceremony about formally . elecung democratic committee.
Militants should recognise provided by the weekly meeting of branch chapel officers the potential to use this as a strike committee.
But, most important of all, such miltants must use these decisions to reach out to the thousands of supporters the workers in other unions, in mining communities, the nack communities. The proposal for weisn week unis comll: weekend at should be followed with other such proposals to different areas OT t different unions to women. and to the black community The decisions of Monday's meeting provide a basis for renewing the apthe rest of the abour movement to put their words of support into action in support of the sacked printers. is presently clearly reeling of blows.
Murdoch is a worthy sym- TONE SCrIC bol of the callous moneygrubbing stance of her government. Wapping has the potential to become a further real crisis for this government The week of action which the South Region of the TUC announced Monday's meeting to boost the boycott campaign can be made into a focus for the massive support that still exists for the printworkers against Murdoch aliu and Thatcher.
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