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Genes Banden Bi Gift Dining Voucher Desperate proposals to defeat the 27-week old Garners strike have been emerging from beleagured employer Margolis during the last week.

Conspicuous among these have been a call for a ballot of scabs and strikers put in the Catering Times by his stooge Bernard Henderson and even echoed by some of the strikers.

Despite denials from TGWU Regional Organiser Shorter that he knows anything of such a proposal, or would support it if he did, strikers scent the stench of sell-out now in the air.

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Londres est belle et plein de vie .

Londra è bella e piena di vita ... itself is clear from the fact that the employer has been compelled to give up his previously rigid isolation from the media.

Everyone knows now that if the TGWU Regional leadership would lift a finger, the battle would be over in days.

There can be no doubt that the strike continues to hit Margolis and hit him hard.

He has had his son amongst others distributing thousands of €1 off a meal vouchers throughout the West End.

This desperate stunt to draw custom has failed miserably with reports from picket lines of customers actually handing over the vouchers to strikers when 1746 zoals bij .. ansi que les. vida e cosi1....

WITH THE WAMESCA AGENCY Garners invitation they discovered was a there strike on.

On 27 July more pressure was put on Margolis when seven workers from the Oxford Street branch walked out over a squabble as how best to divide the spoils of their scabbing.

The fact that Margolis is still clinging on by his finger tips is entirely due to the trade union On Saturday night, a mass picket of 50 mobilised by the WSL at the Haymarket demonstrated both the vulnerability of the business to concerted picketing and the vulnerability of the police who have stepped up their policy of harrassment and intimidation of the picket line.

Eight restaurants were picketed on Saturday night, drastically cutting Margolis' trade.

It has become clear that since the mauling that Regional Organiser Shorter suffered from the delegates at the recall Garners Support Conference, the bureaucracy have taken the decision to kill this strike.

Financial levy

Over a month has passed since the conference endorsed strike committee policies of secondary blacking, a financial levy and building an effective picket on all restaurants.

Yet we understand from last Thursday's meeting between Shorter and the strike committee that the Regional bureaucracy are still refusing to circulate branches with the strike