LAST week all major building sites in Dublin were closed and main roads into the city blocked as construction against unemployment levels of up to 45 per cent in the industry.
All nine building unions participated in the day of protest and construction machinery was used to make the road blockages effective.
The government has been trying recently to deflect opposition to massive tax increases by preposing new cuts in State expenditure. But as pay talks collapsed which offered teachers, civil serhealth and local paltry 6 per cent spread over 15 months, and the Labour Court look like bending to bus workers' wage demands, resistance is being prepared.
workers protested government workers a A PIECE I DON'T KNOW WHAT'S WRONG WITH ME - I JUST CAN'T GET WORKED UP RBOUT THE LABOUR PARTY LEADERSHIP ELECTION....
DON'T DISTURB ME:
I'M DREAMING ABOUT 3 LA TICKET.
Camden Town Against Witch will be to ference.
Any other bodies send observers.
Icauci sully show wny this neeting will be importan Three out of four call didates for the leadership have a record of supporting, and voting for, the expulsion of socialists from the Labour Party.
Only Eric Heffer and FARCE? JUST WAIT..)
JIM CALLAGHAN IS ABOUT TO ANNOUNCE HIS OWN S PERSONAL CHOICE... / Michael Meacher, have consistently opposed pulsions. Yet the 'dream ticket of Kinnock Hattersley is being pushed forward as a great unifier of the party!
LAW is campaigning around two model resolutions. One, in support of *Green wich amendstention, theld guarantee ment' the con. the right of all groups to organise inside the Party The second calls the reinstatement five expelled members of Militant's editorial board Be there on 2 July to make sure these resolutions are passed in October. • Details: L.A.W secretary, Keith Lichman, 11 Wilderton Road, London N16 (802 1709).
THAT'S AN ABSURD IDEA! WHY, THERE WOÜLDN'T BE MORE THAN THIRTY MEMBER OF THE PLP WHO WOULD VOTE FOR 1 нІM...
Socialist Action 1 July 1983
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Dublin building workers strike