SocialistAction 1983–88

The paper of the Socialist League, formerly the International Marxist Group, 1983–88

Docks strike:

· Socialist Action No. 69, 14 September 1984 · p. 12 of the scan · 506 words

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TAL ACTiON BLOC 24 H GENERA OR LIST In prison he survived torture and hunger the LKI. He was commitment to the management organised ballot.

The normal size of this shift is 750.

At Barry dockers have joined the strike, while at Bristol not enough dockers crossed the picket lines to enable work to With just over half the LOCKERS it is clear that the militants must now take the struggle for an all-out stoppage to the working ports.

At Swansea, striking dockers are picketing the lug-Dual crews who take the ore ships Port Talbot move which would affect Lianwern as well. This type of action needs to be spread.

The argument that this strike is directly in the interests of dockers has to be takci to the working ports. The breach of the Dock Labour Scheme a Hunterston takes employers in the direction they want to go. Tories have made no secret of the fact that they want to scrap the Dock Labour They will carry out the attack on jobs and conditions in the docks as they are currently carrying out on the mines.

The opportunity link up witn the miner. provides the best way to defend jobs on the docks. Every striking docker now recognises that the bosses' key condition for a return • This Saturday, 15 September INITIALLY it looked as though the Port of London Authority had had a good weekend. Over 50 per cent of Tilbury dockers voted for a return to work in the But the real test was Monday morning, when only one hundred scabs crossed the picket lines in the ballot which really counted - clocking on for work.

to work is agreement to scab on the NUM. The dockers cannot + fight that on their own. Ine lones will Dol concede that Ravenscraig CUl stoke biting great deal without The dock strike, even al present levels, will start to hit industry in the next fortnight. supplies the steel plants can also be stopped the effects will be dramatic.

The obstacle to winning the miners' strike has never been the lack of ability of the working class win. il las scabbing role of the right.

Medlock Bibby, Silver Birch, and their ilk are the offCOMES Bill Sirs, Eric Hammond and wing of the TUC. Those who would miners will lend their hand to selling out the dockers.

The answer is to spread the • picketing, up directly with the NUM. dockers provide more than all the major ports, Make the effects of the strike felt within a week.

With miners and dockers striking Tories would be in big that is the best those in the movement who seek to isolate the miners, to the they spawn at the base of the movement.

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