who are supporting this official strike.
women's support group set up by the families of the workers jailed for Birkenhead shipyard.
A continuous picket is be maintained at lne yard, with a mass picket each Monday at 7am. The aim is to prevent several hundred scabs crossing official picket lines to finish WUNK on a destrover and oil rig, previously осcupied by the 37.
Once this work
finished, the destroyer will e taken by the navy, and he oil rig towed to France to be fitted out. Then there will be no more work, and the jailed workers believe that the yard will then be cleared and sold to private industry.
privatised yard would employ a handful of workers, on the casual conditions which were once the plague poverty-stricken Merseyside. SUPPORT THE Cammell Laird prisoners — stop the scabs: This is the demand of the newly-formed Cammell Lairds strike committee, organised by Wirral Trades Council to help the 300 Lairds' workers The strike committee is working closely with the the occupation at the The official GMBATU leadership has known this for months, but has allowed the occupation become isolated and so encouraged scabs to return to work.
Cammel Lairds Support Group The Merseyside GMBATU official, Barry Williams, tried stop trades council supporters of the strike using loudspeakers to persuade scabs to turn back.
Williams argued: 'Only microphone should be used on an official picket This. This was at the gate where the were under heavy police escort. David Basnett talking to Len Murray at the TUC Reluctantly, after the 37 have spent two weeks in Walton, David Basnett, celeral SeCretary of GMBATU is to ask the TUC for help. This will be on Wednesday, two days prisoners are due to be released.
Run rnaay, me aay o. their release, Lol Duffy, chair of Wirral Distict Labour Party, is due speak on a platform with Keva Coombes, Merseyside County Council, at a Merseyside Labour port Berners Street, Birkenhead, 7.30pm).
The subject will be accountability. Lol Duffy микроне sconn. tability of the GMBATU leadership, Keva Coombes will look at the accoun tability of MPs. Frank 'Rainbow Circle' Field who is so reluctant to support the Lairds' workers very much everybody's minds. AcTioN SociAlist
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