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Brothers Shorter and Abrahams were welcome visitors to the Garners picket lines late on Friday night.

This pre-Regional Committee stroke by the Regional Organiser and the TGWU Catering Officer served two purposes.

One was to allay the criticisms to be raised at the lobby of the Regional Committee on Tuesday about their failure to picket; the other was the vain hope that they would find no pickets and could use this as grounds for ending the strike.

However, despite the retusal of the Regional leadership to mobilise its membership, the strike remains very much alive and the strikers as determined as ever to win.

This wek the Greater London Association of Trades Councils liaison committee finally met with members of the strike committee.

They have called for members of al! London Trades Councils to join a picket on Friday December 8.

The group refused to take a position on sponsoring Defence Fund for those arrested on the recent Day of Actionmaintaining that a motion would have to come from the floor of GLATC.

A lot of criticism has been levelled against GLATC for its criminal inaction on this ninemonth strike, right in the centre of its area.

Even more condemnation can of course be levelled against Region 1 of the TGWU who will hold their third committee meeting this week while this strike has dragged on and still have no proposals on how to win the strike.

The Building Trade Group last week spoke out against this PHOTO: Mark Rusher. IFL sabotage and have support the lobby.

The picketing continues to drastically cut Margolis' profits in this slack post-summer period.

Students have begun to picket the Oxford St. and Argylle St. In The restaurants in the lunchtime.

This picketing will be increasingly important as the needed.

The scabs usually react violently to effective picketing, and last Tuesday lunchtime a chain-waving waiter chased youthful pickets at the Hay: market branch.

Once more the police have demonstrated their 'neutrality' by arresting someone on Friday for filming the picketing!

As soon as a decision is made on a date for the TGWU conference on Garners, proposed by the strike committee for 30 November, all TGWU branches should decide on their delegations, and pledge support for strike committee policies.

The strikers are sticking by their determination to have no return to work without full reinstatement and recognition of the union.

Trade groups should each pledge themselves to maintain a picket on a restaurant.

The strikers should be given £36 per week, to be raised by a levy or any other appropriate means.

How is it that Fords strikers can be given f9 a week strike pay when the Garners strikers have for nine months been told the rules insist on only £6?

All these questions will be raised at the lobby of the Region and will form the basis' of the TGWU conference to win the strike.

On the picket line at Garners

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