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Amid scenes of militant picketing difficult to imagine following Grunwick and the now usual presence of the Special Patrol Group of strikebreakers, the company were forced to close the factory gates early on.

Unprepared

With the police clearly caught completely unprepared and greately outnumbered by pickets, and a mixture of inexperience, disorder and lack of conviction, the main characteristic of the forces of 'law and order' who were there, the majority of scabs were forced to find their way into the factory across neighbouring potato fields.

The picket's effectiveness was due primarily to its strong worker composition, with TGWU delegations from many of the Midlands car plants including Chrysler, Stoke and British Leyland's Rover, Jaguar, Longbridge and Cowley factories.

Workers Socialist League members and supporters represented a sizeable proportion of the 200 or so total.

Yet these forces represent nothing like the numbers that can and must be mobilised.

The TGWU leadership regionally and • nationally continues to pay only lip service to this struggle.

The contingent from Hull docks, for instance, numbered only four people, though they are by far the biggest section of the union in the vicinity.

Production at the Telearanh. Mail. Sun. of the World and Express could be seriously hit soon by the strike at the Usher Walker printing ink plant in East London.

The plant produces about 30% of the ink used on national papers.

The strike, against compulPolice pushed to the Yet Pat Ruane, a General Executive member for their Region, speaking at a brief rally afterwards, spent the whole time stressing how much the union leadership was in support, adding that Moss Evans would have been there but for Fords!

The Strike Committee are making moves for Sandersons Support Committees to be set up throughout the country and ing militants at the undermanned plant, has come under fire from NATSOPA officials.

Despite a statement from the works manager that redundancies would go ahead, NATSOPA bureaucrat Dave Hutchinson has insisted there is "no threat" of sackings.

Instead, last week saw attempts to summon chapel front rank of the mass picket have agreed to set a date for a further mass picket.

As with Garners, the other long-running sore in the TGWU's side, the campaign within the union must be stepped-up, centring on mass picketing and linked to blacking of supplies and financial assistance.

Donations and details of next mass picket from 24, High St., Burgh-le-Marsh, Skegness, Lincs.

*As we go to press strikers have received recorded delivery letters from the NATSOPA bureaucracy summoning each individual to attend disciplinary proceedings on Tuesday 31 October under union rule 32. closure of plumbers' District

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