Garners boss desperate

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by the success of the Tory MP Brook to act as of full reinstatement an Day of Action two mediator between the two sides, recognition.

Stung by the success of the TGWU Day of Action two weeks ago, Garners Steak Houses boss Margolis was forced last week to distribute an internal campaign bulletin to scabs which lyingly claimed that the march had only attracted 450 supporters, and consisted of merely ten strikers.

•That this was an act of desperation was exposed in the second half of the bulletin, by a carefully worded resignation statement from Phillip Carlow, erstwhile chief accountant and one of the most vicious scabs.

As the big rats desert the sinking ship Margolis has been forced to rely on his ragged pack of scabs to plead with Tory MP Brook to act as mediator between the two sides.

The fact that TGWU Regional Organiser Les Shorter, Catering Officer Abrahams and Strike Committee Chairman Rachman went to see Brook last Thursday is a warning to strikers to guard against a sell-out by this treacherous trio.

This meeting followed vain attempts by Shorter to persuade well-attended strikers meeting on Wednesday that the Union had done its best and that a compromise settlement was now inevitable.

We understand that many strikers forced Shorter to retreat from his stand with their protests that the only possible settlement was still on the basis

Strong

They pointed out the Day of Action had shown that this strike was very strong despite the Regional leadership's continued refusal to mobilise its membership to win it.

The real strength of the strike is reflected in this powerfull call from the Strike Committee for a trade union lobby of the next Regional Committee meeting in November and a national TGWU delegate conference, both to win support for strike committee policies.