Violence Flares as Bosses Get Desperate
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Shorter-"one picket may be better than many" picketing and the mobilis- by the strike committee on ation of the TGWU mem- Wednesday 28 June bership in Region 1 onto condemning the violence the picket lines in regular and calling for the construcA press statement issued is step in the right picketing to the Garners recall conference (See Socialist Press 106), was soon realised with a series of vicious attacks on picketers and supporters in the 22nd week of the strike.
At the conference, Shorter, the new TGWU Region 1 organiser-whilst engaging in a wholesale attack on strike committee policy, denied the need for mass pickets, claiming that picket lines of one person (sic) were sufficient to win the strike.
His open invitation to harrassment was gratefully accepted by the scabs on Saturday June 24.
There were violent attacks on three picket lines culminating in the most serious outbreak of violence so far when scabs at the Haymarket lashed out at the picket line armed with wooden poles.
This important development in the strike, reflecting the desperation of management, has to be met by a reaffirmation of strike delegations. committee policy on mass Have you ead yet?
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