Garners strikers' new test
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But it is not only money Garners' trade is once again that has been stinted by the plunging. have also resolutely national delegate conference :Communists THE KEY TO THE CUTS FIGHT Ple Socialis Name.
Address Send 1o: WSL, 31, Dartmouth Park Hill .,31 London NW5 1HR ndor information The key book for understanding post-war Stalinism. 166pp, £1.75 plus 20p post: and packing from WSL, 31, Dartmouth Park Hill, London NW5 1HR A challenge now faces the Strike Committee in the marathon 10-month recognition battle at Garners Steak Houses.
If the present balance of forces between the strikers, the management and the TGWU union bureaucracy is to be tipped in favour of the strikers a new initiative is necessary.
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Al national TGWU delegate conference must be convened, within which the Strike Committee can raise the fight for its longthwarted demands of full-scale blacking, full financial support, and mass picketing of Garners.
Already the sustained NO ME campaign for these policies has forced certain concessions from the TGWU Regional officials Staden and Shorter have grudgingly agreed to advance an extra £6 strike pay every 15 days out of the £3,200 reserve fund now being held by the Regional F&GP.
This falls far short of the strikers' demand for £36 per week strike pay, financed if necessary by a Regional levy.
Were the officials to agree to such financial backing for the strike it would amount to a clear declaration of war on Garners boss Margolis.
Many unions smaller than the TGWU do pay such amounts of strike pay. Even the right wing APEX The booklet which spells out the policies necessary for all-out struggle against the cuts, drawing on practical experience at the EGA and the Oxford Nursery Occupation.
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TGWU bureaucracy. They 10y 09. • 0c0 *:: 2020 1 obstructed the strikers' demand that each trade group in the 500,000-strong London Region "adopt" a Garners restaurant for regular picketing.
The latest move to headoff this call is yet another delegate conference for hotel and catering workers by the Food, Drink and Tobacco trade group.
Two such conferences have already been called with abortive results.
Indeed the last one saw full time catering officer George Abrahams mobilise a mere two stewards to attend!
Despite this obstruction by the bureaucracy, however, the recent fall in support on the picket lines has been checked, and A fight now for a TGWU 22 998380 PHOTO: Laurence Sparham, IFL Garners pickets could give the strike the added impetus it needs for victory. Such a conference should organise support for the following policies.
*Allow the strike committee to administer the reserve fund.
*£36 per week strike Region enced by a London *Saturday night mass pickets.
*Each trade group to adopt restaurant for picketing.
*Full-scale secondary blacking of Garners' suppliers.
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